[PATCH] Require bash shell for symlink-mesa.sh
Joerg Sonnenberger
joerg at britannica.bec.de
Sat Mar 8 10:32:02 PST 2008
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 04:20:02PM +0000, Igor Mozolevsky wrote:
> On 08/03/2008, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > - echo -n: Autoconf has feature tests to avoid this, but they're not used here.
> > - Potentially empty variables not quoted
>
> echo -n is perfectly fine on sh (man sh on FreeBSD confirms that)
It is not. But it can be replaced portably by printf.
(For the archive: echo -n is a BSDism that is not part of POSIX)
Joerg
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