Re: make bootsrap problems

[Angelo Graziosi]

Glenn Morris wrote:

> I think I see what's going on now. I'm guessing you have /bin/sh
> pointing to zsh. zsh's echo behaves differently from bash's with
> regards to these backslash escapes:
>
> bash> echo "ELCFILES = \\\\\\"   ->    ELCFILES = \\\
> zsh>  echo "ELCFILES = \\\\\\"   ->    ELCFILES = \\

I have GNU/Linux Kubuntu 8.04 and bash:

$ echo $SHELL
/bin/bash

Running the above command from Makefile (make update-elcfiles) prints, 
in temp.sed,

ELCFILES = \\

Instead, running from command line

ELCFILES = \\\


There is a bug somewhere. Perhaps, in 'Hardy' ?


Cheers,
   Angelo.