On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Martin Costabel <costa...@wanadoo.fr>wrote:
> On 8/11/10 23:25, phil hefferan wrote:
> []
>
> OK thanks I will investigate unstable, I'm a new fink user. Just
>> curious: what was broken with magic.inc and what fix did you apply?
>>
>
> The file magic.inc is produced by make using the following code in
> file/Makefile:
>
> magic.inc: magic
> echo -n "\"" > $@
> sed -e 's/\\/\\\\/g' -e 's/"/\\\"/g' -e 's/$$/\ \\/' magic >> $@
> echo -n "\"" >> $@
>
> This does not work since MacOSX 10.5, because `echo -n` when run from a sh
> shell does not do what it is supposed to do, namely printing a line without
> carriage return at the end; instead it prints "-n" and then the line, plus
> CR. The fix is to replace "echo" by "/bin/echo" which interprets the -n
> option correctly.
>
Thanks for the explanation. Stegdetect from fink unstable appears to be
working.
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