On Tuesday, September 01, 2009, at 10:29AM, "Martin Costabel" <costa...@wanadoo.fr> wrote: >Mark J. Reed wrote: >> OK, that confirms that what Martin said is true of Snow Leopard, which >> I don't think was in question. But he said it had been true since >> Leopard, and that's the part that I think is in error. If it wasn't >> changed until SL, that would also explain why the current problem >> didn't show up until SL. > >No, this behavior has been the same since the beginning of Leopard. >There has been a long campaign of correction of Fink packages, >eliminating "echo -n". Seeing who is its maintainer, I don't know why >altpdftex has escaped until now. > >[] >>>> $ sh >>>> sh-3.2$ echo -n Hello >>>> Hellosh-3.2$ exit >>>> $ sh --posix >>>> sh-3.2$ echo -n Hello >>>> Hellosh-3.2$ > >I don't know how you do this, but it's not what I get on Leopard. Are >you sure you aren't running Tiger? Or do you set or unset the >environment variable COMMAND_MODE in one opf your startup scripts? >>In the shells I have looked at on Leopard, this environment variable is >always set to unix2003. I am not sure where it is set, probably in the >Finder, but everything inherits this, unless it is changed explicitly. > >If you run altpdflatex with COMMAND_MODE=unix2003, you get the POSIX-sh >behavior Ben has seen on SnowLeopard and I have described on Leopard. If >you run it with COMMAND_MODE=legacy (and this is what TeXShop apparently >does on Leopard), you get the behavior Mark is seeing in sh. > >Try (on Leopard, I am not near my SL machine right now) > >env COMMAND_MODE=unix2003 sh -c 'echo -n asdf' >env COMMAND_MODE=legacy sh -c 'echo -n asdf' >
On Snow Leopard ... sh-3.2$ env COMMAND_MODE=unix2003 sh -c 'echo -n asdf' -n asdf sh-3.2$ env COMMAND_MODE=legacy sh -c 'echo -n asdf' asdfsh-3.2$ Ben ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
