Re: echo vs. printf regression (darwin8)

[Paolo Bonzini]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 21:53, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> * Paolo Bonzini wrote on Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 09:05:40PM CEST:
>> In order to avoid rewriting your makefiles, just do
>>
>> AC_SUBST([ECHO], [echo])
>>
>> for the time being.
>
> I don't think that works currently.  Libtool sets $ECHO early in
> configure and uses that when writing config.status.  When users
> overwrite that, it may break the generated libtool script on some
> systems.

Ouch, right. Two-argument AC_SUBST implies VAR=value, I forgot.

> Add to that that Libtool used to AC_SUBST([ECHO]).

But it doesn't anymore.

> Whatever we do, NEWS needs a big warning note.

Why? It's just namespace pollution, which has always been there.

Paolo