The following reply was made to PR config/2654; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Andreas Muck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ralf S. Engelschall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: config/2654: APACI autoconfig generates broken Configure.apaci
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 13:25:47 +0200 (MEST)
On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
>Ok, Let's try a second version of "configure" I append below. This time we
This one worked fine.
>##
>## look for deadly broken echo commands which interpret escape
>## sequences `\XX' *per default*. For those we first try the -E option
>## and if it then is still broken we give a warning message.
>## If it works set the `Safe Echo Option' (SEO) variable.
>##
>
>SEO=''
>bytes=`echo '\1' | wc -c | awk '{ printf("%s", $1); }'`
>if [ ".$bytes" != .3 ]; then
I would suggest changing the line above to:
bytes=`echo $SEQ '\1' | ...
though. Without it, the test ignores manually set SEQ and will always fail
if either `echo' nor `echo -E' work.
Except that, it looks ok to me.
Andi
