Dan Nicholson wrote: > First patch is to eliminated "echo -[en]" since it's not always > supported by POSIX shells. I chose to use printf since it was a > builtin in dash. I didn't notice until later that it's not mentioned > in POSIX. And the executable printf is in /usr/bin. We can maintain > the same "echo -[en]" syntax by switching in /bin/echo everywhere, > too.
I prefer using /bin/echo. I wonder if there would be a test to see if echo -[en] works or not and then: if (works) ECHO=echo else ECHO=/bin/echo and then use $ECHO everywhere. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
