On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 02:00:16PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > The change was made in line with the SuS. Note that it is not possible > to write echo statements portably across platforms because of legacy > shells that do support options. That is why it is recommended to use > printf instead of echo.
I'm afraid that I'm not familiar with the SuS. Could you give me a URL for this? > > so, I guess I should start filing `bashism' bug-reports against scripts > > which start out `#! /bin/sh' and make use of `echo -n' or `echo -e'? > > Yes, options are not supported under the SuS. Unfortunately, it seems to break kernel compiles (for 2.2.13, at least), if /bin/sh -> /bin/bash. Apparently some #define's are echo'd to include/linux/compile.h, using the `-n' option. You can get around this by using `make SHELL=/bin/bash ...' if compiling it directly, but I don't think that works if going through make-kpkg.
