Re: [notmuch] [PATCH] makefile: Tell echo to interpret escape sequences.
authorKarl Wiberg <kha@treskal.com>
Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:05:16 +0000 (08:05 +0100)
committerW. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Fri, 7 Nov 2014 17:35:41 +0000 (09:35 -0800)
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+Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:05:16 +0100\r
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+From: Karl Wiberg <kha@treskal.com>\r
+To: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>\r
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+Subject: Re: [notmuch] [PATCH] makefile: Tell echo to interpret escape\r
+       sequences.\r
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+On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:\r
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+> It's a shame that simple things like "echo" aren't easy to use portably.\r
+> (And yes, I know that autoconf has a bunch of tests for echo, such as\r
+> how to get the behavior of "echo -n", etc.)\r
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+I think the standard workaround is to use "printf" instead.\r
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