On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:02:15PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: > Is this theoretical, or is there an actual Makefile where this is a problem ? > > I'd rather NOT go through extra shell forking just for the sake of it. > > Also, echo -e is specific to ksh and NOT a posix option, so you're going > to end up with something that is deeply non-portable. > > Either way, this is fucked up.
Let me put things another way: I'd rather NOT put echo as a shell built-in, because it is very often needed as a "raw thingy". Actually, I would even say that instead of running echo directly, it would make sense to have it be a built-in in make proper...
