Mark J. Reed wrote: > OK, that confirms that what Martin said is true of Snow Leopard, which > I don't think was in question. But he said it had been true since > Leopard, and that's the part that I think is in error. If it wasn't > changed until SL, that would also explain why the current problem > didn't show up until SL.
No, this behavior has been the same since the beginning of Leopard. There has been a long campaign of correction of Fink packages, eliminating "echo -n". Seeing who is its maintainer, I don't know why altpdftex has escaped until now. [] >>> $ sh >>> sh-3.2$ echo -n Hello >>> Hellosh-3.2$ exit >>> $ sh --posix >>> sh-3.2$ echo -n Hello >>> Hellosh-3.2$ I don't know how you do this, but it's not what I get on Leopard. Are you sure you aren't running Tiger? Or do you set or unset the environment variable COMMAND_MODE in one opf your startup scripts? In the shells I have looked at on Leopard, this environment variable is always set to unix2003. I am not sure where it is set, probably in the Finder, but everything inherits this, unless it is changed explicitly. If you run altpdflatex with COMMAND_MODE=unix2003, you get the POSIX-sh behavior Ben has seen on SnowLeopard and I have described on Leopard. If you run it with COMMAND_MODE=legacy (and this is what TeXShop apparently does on Leopard), you get the behavior Mark is seeing in sh. Try (on Leopard, I am not near my SL machine right now) env COMMAND_MODE=unix2003 sh -c 'echo -n asdf' env COMMAND_MODE=legacy sh -c 'echo -n asdf' -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
