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On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 22:00 -0400, Trevor Woerner wrote:<BR>
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<TT><FONT COLOR="#1a1a1a">It's a substring operation.</FONT></TT><BR>
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<TT><FONT COLOR="#1a1a1a">echo "${_line:7}"</FONT></TT><BR>
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<TT><FONT COLOR="#1a1a1a">is supposed to print the variable $_line starting from the 7th</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#1a1a1a">character. That way all the titles are supposed to line up. But I</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#1a1a1a">guess substring notation is not portable... :-)</FONT></TT><BR>
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Ok, I figured it out. <BR>
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The first line of build.sh is:
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#!/bin/sh
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So it's a portability issue. The echo -e command prints -e as part of the text to print.<BR>
Type "man sh". <BR>
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Everything works if I type them from a terminal command line (which is GNU bash).<BR>
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All the configure scripts created by Autoconf are bin/sh. This is what Adrian was saying.
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