On 17 Dec 2006, at 02:00, 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"

I was only referring to the fact that replacing '/bin/echo" by "%p/ 
bin/echo'
would lead to an error _ and that I see no way to write the command in a
way acceptable to both ..
But, as you very rightly stressed, it is the (bash-)builtin echo that  
matters ...

JF


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