Eric Blake wrote:
> Since forking external programs matters most on cygwin and mingw ...
Also on AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, OSF/1, Solaris, one can avoid spawning 'cat':
by using the 'print -r' trick from libtool.m4.
2007-06-23 Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* gnulib-tool (echo): Add a speed
Paul Eggert wrote:
> I think printf is portable nowadays, at least to the platforms that
> gnulib-tool is likely to run on.
Indeed, 'printf' is useful to use when we find that it is a shell built-in,
namely on bash >= 2.0. (See the patch in the other mail.) But other than that?
'printf' is portab
Eric Blake wrote:
> POSIX requires that echo interpret backslash sequences.
POSIX:2001 Technical Corrigendum 1 [1] mentions that BSD echo is POSIX
compliant.
Eric Blake and Paul Eggert wrote:
> POSIX even admits this, and recommends the use of printf instead.
> ...
> One advantage of using printf
On 23 Jun 2007, at 06:25, Eric Blake wrote:
If you reconfigured autoconf after installing a newer GNU m4, and
autoconf
did not find the right m4, then that is a bug in autoconf, and
should be
dealt with there.
Right. Since it was experienced by the developers on the Bug-Bison
list, I hop
Hello,
Fernando Ferreira wrote:
> I found out that gnulib-tools,
> invoked by bootstrap to generate the gnulib-comp.m4 file, had a little
> but vital bug that inserted these extraneous characters instead of the
> desired behavior. The faulty lines are these, lines 2170 to 2180 on
> gnulib/gnul
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> libtool.m4 also tries other workarounds: searching for an 'echo' program
> in $PATH:/usr/ucb (but how is this better than 'cat'?) or using a built-in
> 'print -r' command (which shells except ksh have this?) or using 'printf'
> (is that portable nowadays?
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> POSIX requires that echo interpret backslash sequences.
Actually, POSIX says that the behavior of 'echo' is
implementation-defined if any of the arguments contain backslash, or
if echo's first operand is -n.
If the implementation supports the XSI extensio
