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Re: The loadables are built during install

From Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups gnu.bash.bug
Subject Re: The loadables are built during install
Date 2018-09-09 14:14 -0400
Organization ITS, Case Western Reserve University
Message-ID <mailman.561.1536516885.1284.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)
References <20180907203939.GB60818@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>

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On 9/7/18 4:39 PM, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> There is an issue in the build framework of bash 4.4.23 (and 5.0-alpha):
> "make all" does not build examples/loadables.

True. Not that many people want them if they're just building the shell.
You can get them if you run `make everything'.

> "make install" however recurses into examples/loadables and, since
> the loadable modules aren't there, proceeds to build them before
> installation.

Yes, if you're going to install -- not everyone does that, either -- they
are part of the installation set (the result of requests for an `SDK').
So `make install' ensures they're built.

Chet

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Re: The loadables are built during install Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2018-09-09 14:14 -0400

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