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Re: echo vs. printf regression (darwin8)
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Eric Blake |
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Re: echo vs. printf regression (darwin8) |
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Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:54:40 -0600 |
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On 08/16/2010 07:49 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 08/15/2010 04:11 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> On 08/15/10 21:26, David Fang wrote:
>>> I'm desperate enough to use sed to patch config.status after it's been
>>> generated:
>>
>> If you're that desperate, you're desperate enough to use bash
>> instead of the broken Darwin shell, no?
>>
>> To others:
>>
>> Would it be appropriate to patch Autoconf to generate a 'configure'
>> that rejects that implementation of 'echo', if it discovers the bug?
>
> The bug is not in 'echo', but in the improper use of $(ECHO) within ``
> inside the Makefile. Autoconf has no business inspecting whether
> Makefile.am has a use of $(ECHO) that might be broken due to libtool's
> change of how $(ECHO) is defined, and whether that change will cause
> breakage because $(ECHO) is being used incorrectly in the Makefile.
>
> I don't see how changing anything in autoconf could help in this situation.
That said, it may still be possible to patch libtool to define $ECHO in
such a way that will be more robust to use with `` in a Makefile.
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- echo vs. printf regression (darwin8), David Fang, 2010/08/15
- Re: echo vs. printf regression (darwin8), Paolo Bonzini, 2010/08/15
- Re: echo vs. printf regression (darwin8), David Fang, 2010/08/15
- Re: echo vs. printf regression (darwin8), Paolo Bonzini, 2010/08/15
- Re: echo vs. printf regression (darwin8), David Fang, 2010/08/15
- Re: echo vs. printf regression (darwin8), Paul Eggert, 2010/08/15
- Re: echo vs. printf regression (darwin8), Paolo Bonzini, 2010/08/15
- Re: echo vs. printf regression (darwin8), Eric Blake, 2010/08/16
- Re: echo vs. printf regression (darwin8),
Eric Blake <=
- Re: echo vs. printf regression (darwin8), Paolo Bonzini, 2010/08/16
Re: echo vs. printf regression (darwin8), David Fang, 2010/08/15
- Re: echo vs. printf regression (darwin8), Paolo Bonzini, 2010/08/16
- Re: echo vs. printf regression (darwin8), Peter O'Gorman, 2010/08/16
- Re: echo vs. printf regression (darwin8), Paolo Bonzini, 2010/08/16
- Re: echo vs. printf regression (darwin8), David Fang, 2010/08/16
- Re: echo vs. printf regression (darwin8), Paolo Bonzini, 2010/08/16
- Re: echo vs. printf regression (darwin8), Ralf Wildenhues, 2010/08/16
- Re: echo vs. printf regression (darwin8), Paolo Bonzini, 2010/08/16
- Re: echo vs. printf regression (darwin8), Ralf Wildenhues, 2010/08/17