> This has been discussed quite extensively on debian-devel. Apparently,
> SuS (Single-Unix Specification) says that echo must not accept any
> parameters.
Good, I like to follow standards, even if I disagree with them.
> So either we specificy what shells can be used, or we'll have to rewrite
> the echo-statement(s) in some way (printf?).
Gnu Make has a lot of string-handling built in and it's easy to put
the version string together without "echo -n", just by concatenation,
filtering, and substitution.
Whoever does this work, please spend an hour in "info make" first.
It's powerful. Use the power.
Michael Elizabeth Chastain
<mailto:mec@shout.net>
"love without fear"
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