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23.0.60; rm doesn't work in eshell

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Magnus Henoch <mange <at> freemail.hu>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.0.60; rm doesn't work in eshell
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:52:18 +0000

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usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.

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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

emacs -Q
M-x eshell RET
touch foo RET
rm foo RET

The last command doesn't delete the file, but gives the message:
Symbol's value as variable is void: interactive



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please include the output from the following gdb commands:
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In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9)
 of 2009-01-19 on linux-b2a3
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10400090
configured using `configure  '--enable-maintainer-mode''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: C
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=local
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Message #10 received at 1969 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Magnus Henoch <mange <at> freemail.hu>
Cc: 1969 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; rm doesn't work in eshell
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:32:28 -0500

> emacs -Q
> M-x eshell RET
> touch foo RET
> rm foo RET
>
> The last command doesn't delete the file, but gives the message:
> Symbol's value as variable is void: interactive

I can't reproduce this with latest CVS (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
2.14.4, 2009-01-20).  `rm' works fine for me.  Could you turn on
debug-on-error and try to track this down?

Message #15 received at 1969 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Magnus Henoch <mange <at> freemail.hu>
To: 1969 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1969: 23.0.60; rm doesn't work in eshell
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:50:13 +0000

Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com> writes:

> I can't reproduce this with latest CVS (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
> 2.14.4, 2009-01-20).  `rm' works fine for me.  Could you turn on
> debug-on-error and try to track this down?

I just ran make maintainer-clean and recompiled the sources, and that
seems to have fixed the problem.  Sorry about the noise...

Magnus

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