Re: FYI: [PATCH] bootstrap: adopt autoconf echo normalization code.

2011-12-23 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Eric, On 19 Dec 2011, at 20:48, Eric Blake wrote: On 12/18/2011 12:46 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Pushed as obvious. Dash shipped with Ubutu-11.10 as /bin/sh, among others, still has a crippled echo builtin that mis-handles backslashes. That's an unfair characterization. Rather, dash

Re: FYI: [PATCH] bootstrap: adopt autoconf echo normalization code.

2011-12-19 Thread Eric Blake
On 12/18/2011 12:46 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Pushed as obvious. Dash shipped with Ubutu-11.10 as /bin/sh, among others, still has a crippled echo builtin that mis-handles backslashes. That's an unfair characterization. Rather, dash ships an echo builtin that complies with POSIX by default