On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 04:15:28PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > The control characters in magick/magick-config.h are pretty strange,
It looks like the culprit is m4/ax_prefix_config_h.m4, which contains this comment: dnl implementation note: a bug report (31.5.2005) from Marten Svantesson points dnl out a problem where `echo "\1"` results in a Control-A. The unix standard dnl http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/utilities/echo.html dnl defines all backslash-sequences to be inherently non-portable asking dnl for replacement mit printf. Some old systems had problems with that dnl one either. However, the latest libtool (!) release does export an $ECHO dnl (and $echo) that does the right thing - just one question is left: what dnl was the first version to have it? Is it greater 2.58 ? Indeed: % dash -c "echo '\1'" | od -c 0000000 001 \n 0000002 % bash -c "echo '\1'" | od -c 0000000 \ 1 \n 0000003 #550399 seems related and is tagged 'wontfix'. I suggest resolving this bug with CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash . Cheers, -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org