The bash loadables available in the standard make install seem pretty useful and people might actually want to use them in scripts. But scripts cannot easily know *where* they are located.
In the bash manpage is documented: BASH_LOADABLES_PATH A colon-separated list of directories in which the shell looks for dynamically loadable builtins specified by the enable command. I suppose that means bash would like to support discovery of these. Unfortunately, it's not very useful to find the builtin ones, since one would need to know which paths the current bash binary was configured with in order to manually set this variable in the script. Maybe it would be good to have this variable default to the path containing the shipped loadables? Is there any particular reason this is not already the case. -- Eli Schwartz Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User