The reason for the /bin has to do with behaviors of different shells in Tiger. Without writing /bin/echo, the 'echo' command is processed as a shell built-in, and the results are different for bash and tcsh.
-- Dave On Dec 16, 2006, at 5:00 PM, Jean-François Mertens wrote: > 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
