From: Gary V. Vaughan g...@gnu.org
Following a recent discussion on bug-gnulib, Jim tells me not
to use the ugly as_echo setting boilerplate in my scripts
anymore, since printf has been available on every shell we care
about for at least 5 if not 10 years.
That affords us the opportunity to
This change would break gnulib's gl_CACHE_VAL_SILENT.
Is there some way you can fix that? It's OK if we
have to modify gl_CACHE_VAL_SILENT, it's just that
we need to modify it in a way that'll work with both
old and new Autoconf.
Also, any such patch to Autoconf should update
the documentation a
Hi Paul,
On 29 Jan 2013, at 06:13, Paul Eggert egg...@cs.ucla.edu wrote:
This change would break gnulib's gl_CACHE_VAL_SILENT.
Is there some way you can fix that?
Sure, since gl_CACHE_VAL_SILENT is already using undocumented
internals of Autoconf, how about:
m4_pushdef([_AS_ECHO_N], [:
])
...
Added NEWS entry, and updated texinfo documentation for echo.
Okay to push?
printf '%s\n' ... has been a fine replacement for plain echo
for at least 5 years (probably more like 10), even with most
museum-piece shells.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_ECHO_PREPARE): Remove.
(_AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Keep
On 29 Jan 2013, at 09:24, Gary V. Vaughan g...@gnu.org wrote:
Added NEWS entry, and updated texinfo documentation for echo.
Okay to push?
[[snip]]
+** Use of 'printf' is now recommended instead of working around bugs in
+ 'echo'. Macros AS_ECHO and AS_ECHO_N now expand unconditionally to
On 2013-01-29 03:24, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
* doc/autoconf.text (Limitations of Shell Builtins): Document
s/text/texi/
Cheers,
Peter
Incorporating feedback from Paul and Paul. Thank you both :)
Okay to push?
printf '%s\n' ... has been a fine replacement for plain echo
for at least 5 years (probably more like 10), even with most
museum-piece shells.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_ECHO_PREPARE): Remove.
(_AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Keep
On 29 Jan 2013, at 13:17, Gary V. Vaughan g...@gnu.org wrote:
Incorporating feedback from Paul and Paul.
Of course that should say Paul and *Peter*. Apologies.
Typos on parade. Time for a break methinks.
Cheers,
--
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)
Thanks, that looks good to me; please push.
