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To: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: wrong final bzImage build (regading #14270)
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On 10/09/2009 01:02 PM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> 
> I had exactly this problem few weeks ago with pdksh as /bin/sh (and 
> bugreported to author of that change). As I workaround I used /bin/echo but 
> using printf is more sane/portable.
> 

Yes, using printf is the right thing to do.

A patch would be appreciated.

	-hpa