Re: make bootsrap problems

[Espen Wiborg]

Glenn Morris <address@hidden> writes:
> 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 = \\

address@hidden:~/src/emacs$ ls -l /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2008-02-01 13:34 /bin/sh -> dash*
address@hidden:~/src/emacs$ dash
$ echo "ELCFILES = \\\\\\"
ELCFILES = \\

So yes, the shell difference is the problem. 

>
> The following ought to work for everyone. Blech.
>
> (Yes, I know I should be using printf rather than echo, but it isn't
> used anywhere else in the Emacs Makefiles, so I don't know if I'm
> allowed to.)

I can confirm that this works for me.

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