Debian Bug report logs - #1007969
make: recognize more commands as shell built-ins

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: make: recognize more commands as shell built-ins

Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2022 20:36:18 +0200

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Package: make
Version: 4.2.1-1.2
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-CC: roam@debian.org

Dear Maintainer,

First of all, thanks a lot for taking care of GNU make in Debian!

What do you think about the attached patches to the version of make in
Debian 10 (buster) that backport two commits from version 4.3 and
let make recognize more commands (both in recipes and in $(shell ...))
as shell built-ins that really need to be run via /bin/sh? I realize
that it may be a bit weird to file a report against oldstable, but
buster is still a supported release, and there is at least one shell
built-in, namely "command", that is in relatively wide use and hence
leads to problems.

I am also attaching a sample Makefile that demonstrates the way make(1)
fails to recognize "command" and "alias" as shell built-ins. I know that
"alias" is completely pointless in non-interactive shells, but it is on
the list of more recognized built-ins in the second patch/commit, so it
was easy to use for testing.

Thanks in advance for looking at this, and keep up the great work!

G'luck,
Peter


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.11
  APT prefers oldstable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: unable to detect

Versions of packages make depends on:
ii  libc6  2.28-10

make recommends no packages.

Versions of packages make suggests:
pn  make-doc  <none>

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[0001-Add-command-as-a-known-shell-built-in.patch (text/plain, attachment)]

[0002-Recognize-more-commands-as-shell-built-ins.patch (text/plain, attachment)]

[0003-Update-the-changelog-file.patch (text/plain, attachment)]

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Message #10 received at 1007969-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>

To: 1007969-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#1007969: make: recognize more commands as shell built-ins

Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2022 20:44:59 +0200

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Version: 4.3-1

The two patches attached to the original bug report were taken from
the 4.3 upstream release.

G'luck,
Peter

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