Re: 2.2.13 compile error

David Weinehall (tao@acc.umu.se)
Fri, 22 Oct 1999 12:16:17 +0200 (MET_DST)


On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Gregory T. Norris wrote:

> I experimented around during lunch today, and figured out what the
> problem was... unfortunately I wasn't able to post back from there.
>
> The debianized version of ash (currently 0.3.5-7), which I use as
> /bin/sh, was recently updated and no longer recognizes any options.
> This caused some literal `-n's to be added to the first line of
> compile.h, which certainly confused things. For the moment I've fixed
> it by relinking /bin/sh to bash.

This has been discussed quite extensively on debian-devel. Apparently,
SuS (Single-Unix Specification) says that echo must not accept any
parameters.

To be honest, I'd say that SuS stinks on this one, but it's a fact
non-the-less.

So either we specificy what shells can be used, or we'll have to rewrite
the echo-statement(s) in some way (printf?).

/David Weinehall
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