I see coreutils is at version 6.7, vs 5.96 in fink. If the maintainer were willing to update, I would hope the need for the "/bin/" to disappear ... ; there should be a way to write things 'portably' (at least across current versions of GNU and of Darwin...). It is a bit of a shock to see coreutils behind darwin...
JF Mertens On 17 Dec 2006, at 00:49, David R.Morrison wrote: > As mentioned on the new "preparing for 10.5" page on the fink wiki, > echo -n is now deprecated in fink. I have edited the vast majority > of packages where this occurs to conform to the new version. > Instead of > > echo -n "string" > > one should now write > > /bin/echo "string\c" > > (See "man echo".) This makes our use of echo POSIX compliant, and is > also compatible with current 10.4 usage. > > -- Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
