-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David Lowe wrote: > On Oct 30, 2007, at 1:26 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > >> That is, it interprets the escaped backslashes plus the following >> character as escape sequences. This is a buggy implementation >> not of POSIX conformance, but of XSI extensions of the POSIX >> standard, see >> <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/echo.html> >> It is a pity that Apple went this way. For the moment we can >> complain and file bugs, but we have to live with it. >> >> Several workarounds are possible: - Replace every "echo " by >> "/bin/echo " in configure - Replace in the first line of >> configure sh by bash - Change the failing echo command lines so >> that they don't use backslashes as escape sequences, i.e. replace >> the one-liner by several lines. > > I'm not a frequent contributor, and may be missing something here, > but doesn't the open group web page hint that 'echo' is deprecated > and the use of 'printf' is encouraged? I'm not a very experienced > programmer, how much work would it be to make that change in > existing scripts?? > > Using a rusty Amiga 4000T, a shiny PowerMac G5, & a homebuilt > Ubuntu box > > Oxymoron: A thinking liberal. > > In our own .info files it's not really a big deal--we can change 'echo' to 'printf' easily. The more problematic and annoying issue is having to patch against upstream developers' use of it in their packages, which is what's going on in the case under discussion. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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