On Feb 17, 2008 1:56 PM, Jeremy Henty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 10:10:13AM -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> > On Feb 17, 2008 6:16 AM, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > You really should get the script from LFS-6.2 or 6.3, and replace
> > > ${ECHO} with just "echo"
> >
> > Using /bin/echo produces the correct result.
>
> Thanks everyone. I installed the LFS 6.3 console script, added
> "ECHO=/bin/echo" near the beginning, rebooted and all is good!
Just to quickly follow up on that. If /bin/sh is bash, then you can
use the builtin echo which supports -e. To be POSIX compliant (i.e.,
using dash as /bin/sh) meant that we had to add a feature test to find
out if -e was supported in the builtin echo, falling back to /bin/echo
if not. There are other possible solutions for this issue, but that
one was the least intrusive I could think of.
So, if you're using bash as /bin/sh, then just use ECHO=echo. Using
the builtin echo will be less overhead then forking /bin/echo every
time a message goes to the screen.
--
Dan
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