Bug 2369713
| Summary: | Fedora should provide the bash loadable builtins directory /usr/lib/bash/ but it does not | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Duncan Roe <duncan_roe> |
| Component: | bash | Assignee: | Siteshwar Vashisht <svashisht> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | admiller, duncan_roe, kasal, kdudka, svashisht, zsanter |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | EasyFix |
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| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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It turns out that bash creates the binary loadable builtins during `make install`. This message is a reminder that Fedora Linux 42 is nearing its end of life. Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora Linux 42 on 2026-05-13. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a 'version' of '42'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, change the 'version' to a later Fedora Linux version. Note that the version field may be hidden. Click the "Show advanced fields" button if you do not see it. Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not able to fix it before Fedora Linux 42 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora Linux, you are encouraged to change the 'version' to a later version prior to this bug being closed. Hi Guys I raised this 11 months ago. What's the holdup? |
Loadable builtins are quite mature at bash version 5.2.37(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu). But Fedora ships without the /usr/lib/bash/ directory where bash's make install puts the binaries. Although the sources reside in the examples/loadables/ directory, the distributed ones are supported. Debian & Ubuntu provide the loadable builtins in a package called "bash-builtins". Slackware comes with loadable builtins installed as part of bash. I suggest Fedora takes one of the above approaches. Historical Note: Loadable builtins first appeared in bash 2.0. Binaries (what Fedora still lacks) appeared in bash 4.4. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. $ enable -f finfo finfo 2. 3. Actual Results: -bash: enable: cannot open shared object finfo: finfo: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory $ Expected Results: $ Additional Information: `help finfo` should now give you: finfo: finfo [-acdgiflmnopsuACGMPU] file [file...] Display information about file attributes. (and lots more)