bug#42529: configure: error: Your 'rm' program is bad, sorry.

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 20 Nov 2020, Karl Berry wrote:

> Hi Bob - (sorry for the delayed reply)
>
>    On an OpenIndiana system without the GNU utilities
>    ...
>    Usage: rm [-cFdfirRuv] file ...]
>
> So, it seems that system's rm does not accept "rm -f" (with no file
> operands)? (I don't have access to any such system to check.)  If so, it
> seems the error message is correctly reporting the state of things,
> including the possible workaround, so I don't see anything to do?
> Closing this now. Feel free to reopen (or just reply) if there is
> something more automake should be doing. Thanks for the report. -k

The "system's" rm in this case is ksh93's built-in rm emulation.

As we all know, the shell attempts to expand arguments before passing 
them to a command.

Behavior of ksh93 (which has a bug) appears to depend on the PATH 
setting so it will behave differently if /usr/xpg4/bin or 
/usr/xpg6/bin appear in the path.

Bob
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