Re: fallback-echo, finding a suitable $ECHO

2005-03-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Slooowly cycling through the list.. * Alexandre Oliva wrote on Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 01:05:59AM CET: > On Jan 27, 2005, Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Which systems do actually need libtool's --fallback-echo? > > Probably ones that didn't support shell functions either. Nope.

Re: fallback-echo, finding a suitable $ECHO

2005-01-30 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Alexandre Oliva wrote on Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 01:05:59AM CET: > On Jan 27, 2005, Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Which systems do actually need libtool's --fallback-echo? > > Probably ones that didn't support shell functions either. I don't > recall exactly which systems requi

Re: fallback-echo, finding a suitable $ECHO

2005-01-29 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 27, 2005, Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which systems do actually need libtool's --fallback-echo? Probably ones that didn't support shell functions either. I don't recall exactly which systems required --fallback-echo, but I do recall it was added for a very good reason, gi

fallback-echo, finding a suitable $ECHO

2005-01-27 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Which systems do actually need libtool's --fallback-echo? (You can grep -i '^echo=.*fallback-echo' libtool to find out). I would like to kill it, that would clean up initialization a bit. Of those machines, which ones would have problems with this replacement: (be it input size limitation, forg

Re: fallback-echo, finding a suitable $ECHO

2005-01-27 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:39:46AM CET: > > I have attached a small script, and encourage > people to test it on all their shells they can find on their systems. > It should reveal at least one working echo, and, in most cases, find > builtins to do the job. and here it is