On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote: > On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:44:37 +0100, Jan Janak <jan@ryngle.com> wrote: >> The initial message that informs the user about the possibility to use >> make V=1 contains a \n at the end, but echo wouldn't interpret that >> properly without the -e command line option. > > Patch doesn't work for me. > > Before patch: > > 0:~/src/notmuch:(master)$ make > Use "make V=1" to see the verbose compile lines. > CC notmuch-new.o > CXX notmuch > > After patch: > > 0:~/src/notmuch:(master)$ make > -e Use "make V=1" to see the verbose compile lines. > CC debugger.o > -e CC gmime-filter-reply.o > -e CC notmuch.o > > 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.) It seems your echo interprets escape sequences by default. When I run make, the first line of output looks like this: Use "make V=1" to see the verbose compile lines.\n CC debugger.o CC gmime-filter-reply.o CC notmuch.o This is on Debian Lenny. Anyway, this one is not important either. -- Jan