Hubert Feyrer wrote:
What to do? Options that I see: 1) Make NetBSD's echo(1) or sh(1) (for its echo-builtin) a tool 2) Fix the mkerrtags.sh and mknames.sh to use e.g. printf(1)? I understand this makes us diverge from the upstream... 3) Ignore
How about here-documents?BTW, I've found the Autoconf manual to be a good reference for portability issues like this:
* echo: http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Limitations-of-Builtins.html#echo * printf: http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Limitations-of-Builtins.html#index-g_t_0040command_007bprintf_007d-1678 * here-documents: http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Here_002dDocuments.html
-Richard