Re: echo vs. printf regression (darwin8)

[Peter O'Gorman]

On 08/16/2010 07:37 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 08/16/2010 12:54 AM, David Fang wrote:
> > Actually, 'pogma' pointed out that this comes from the autoconf macros
> > in libtool.m4, near AC_MSG_CHECKING([how to print strings]).
> > I'm using libtool-2.2.10 right now.
>
> I don't understand, is it breaking in Makefiles that you wrote? I don't
> know of anything in {autoconf,automake,libtool} that would use $ECHO
> this way.


I think it is a namespace problem. What business does libtool have 
setting vars like ECHO, MV, etc.

If libtool had not unconditionally set ECHO to something other than 
'echo', David's Makefiles would have continued to work when he moved 
from libtool-1.5.x to libtool-2.x.

Peter