Makefile: Switch from echo to printf for better portability.

Some systems have an echo implementation which doesn't know how to
interpret a sequence of "\n". The word is that printf should be much
more portable, so let's try that instead.

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 17be8b482a03f1ade341f250ceb6fc7bdc341455..7a9e44c629b833b27e3fbfe54fcd8657e49d78b2 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -49,11 +49,11 @@ include Makefile.local
 # user how to enable verbose compiles.
 ifeq ($(V),)
 quiet_DOC := "Use \"$(MAKE) V=1\" to see the verbose compile lines.\n"
-quiet = @echo $(quiet_DOC)$(eval quiet_DOC:=)"  $1     $@"; $($1)
+quiet = @printf $(quiet_DOC)$(eval quiet_DOC:=)"  $1   $@\n"; $($1)
 endif
 # The user has explicitly enabled quiet compilation.
 ifeq ($(V),0)
-quiet = @echo "  $1    $@"; $($1)
+quiet = @printf "  $1  $@\n"; $($1)
 endif
 # Otherwise, print the full command line.
 quiet ?= $($1)