On Sat, 2007-06-30 11:48:15 -0600, Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> According to Sergey Poznyakoff on 6/30/2007 2:08 AM:
> > (- mark expected lines, + marks the obtained ones). In this case, the
> > expected lines are completely wrong. The command used to produce them
> > is (see testsuite:2257):
> > 
> > echo "jeden\\ndwa
> > trzy
> > "
> 
> Using echo with \ is inherently non-portable, because of the difference in
> whether echo interprets backslash sequences without options, vs. whether
> echo even accepts options.  The testsuite has a bug, in that it should be
> determining whether echo supports backslashes by default, and if not, fall
> back on something that does (echo -e, or printf).

printf is ment to be portable.  However, some of the testsuite
failures seem to be caused by `genfile' being not in $PATH or it was
not built at all...

MfG, JBG

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