Re: cross-compiling on OS X, make menuconfig fails

[Arnd Hannemann <arnd@arndnet.de>]

SL Baur wrote:
> On 5/3/08, Roland Kuhn <rkuhn@e18.physik.tu-muenchen.de> wrote:
>   
>> Hi Steve!
>>
>>
>>  On 3 May 2008, at 08:55, SL Baur wrote:
>>     
>
>   
>>> $ uname -v
>>> Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.1: Wed Oct 10 18:23:28 PDT 2007;
>>> root:xnu792.25.20~1/RELEASE_I386
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>  Yes, they changed that between Tiger and Leopard, where I have
>>
>>  ---
>>  $ uname -v
>>  Darwin Kernel Version 9.2.2: Tue Mar  4 21:17:34 PST 2008;
>> root:xnu-1228.4.31~1/RELEASE_I386
>>  $ /bin/bash -c 'echo -e "buh\n"'
>>  buh
>>
>>  $ /bin/sh -c 'echo -e "buh\n"'
>>  -e buh
>>
>>  $ /bin/echo -e "buh\n"
>>  -e buh\n
>>  ---
>>
>>  The second one is POSIX+XSI, the third one plain POSIX. The first one is
>> what people are used to ;-)
>>     
>
> Check.
>
> $ /bin/bash -c 'echo -e "buh\n"'
> buh
>
> $ /bin/sh -c 'echo -e "buh\n"'
> buh
>
> $ /bin/echo -e "buh\n"
> -e buh\n
>
> Of all the things to "standardize" on, why something like bash
> which has no standards?  pdksh, ash, dash or POSIX mode zsh,
> would have been better...
>
>   
It also depends on the shell option xpg_echo IIRC.
If xpg_echo is off echo -e should work in /bin/sh, too.

Regards,
Arnd