Hi Peter, Just to answer a six-months old question:
* Peter O'Gorman wrote on Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 02:37:20PM CET: > > Just looking to put in an honest check for -single_module support into > libtool.m4 and I see this in _LT_COMPILER_OPTION: > printf "$lt_simple_compile_test_code" > conftest.$ac_ext > > with similar usage elsewhere. > > Why do we go to so much effort to find a working echo if printf works > everywhere? :-p Because a) not every system has a printf http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libtool/2006-06/msg00021.html b) not every system has a working printf: early SunOS versions dumped core with long arguments (that's why _LT_AC_PROG_ECHO_BACKSLASH tries long strings). Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
