Bug 2369713

Summary:	Fedora should provide the bash loadable builtins directory /usr/lib/bash/ but it does not
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Duncan Roe <duncan_roe>
Component:	bash	Assignee:	Siteshwar Vashisht <svashisht>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	42	CC:	admiller, duncan_roe, kasal, kdudka, svashisht, zsanter
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Description Duncan Roe 2025-06-02 07:59:21 UTC

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
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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)

Comment 1 Duncan Roe 2025-06-09 00:58:20 UTC

It turns out that bash creates the binary loadable builtins during `make install`.