Re: [notmuch] [PATCH] makefile: Tell echo to interpret escape sequences.

Subject: Re: [notmuch] [PATCH] makefile: Tell echo to interpret escape sequences.

Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:05:16 +0100

To: Carl Worth

Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

From: Karl Wiberg

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:

> It's a shame that simple things like "echo" aren't easy to use portably.
> (And yes, I know that autoconf has a bunch of tests for echo, such as
> how to get the behavior of "echo -n", etc.)

I think the standard workaround is to use "printf" instead.

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