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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Espen Wiborg <espenhw@grumblesmurf.org>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, kifer@cs.sunysb.edu
Subject: Re: make bootsrap problems
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 20:44:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <38prr745qd.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v17idf5ywz.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Tue, 27 May 2008 15:29:00 -0400")


I think I see what's going on now. I'm guessing you have /bin/sh
pointing to zsh. zsh's echo behaves differently from bash's with
regards to these backslash escapes:

bash> echo "ELCFILES = \\\\\\"   ->    ELCFILES = \\\
zsh>  echo "ELCFILES = \\\\\\"   ->    ELCFILES = \\

Hmph.




  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-28  0:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-27  9:56 make bootsrap problems Michael Kifer
2008-05-27 10:44 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-27 13:36   ` Espen Wiborg
2008-05-27 19:29     ` Glenn Morris
2008-05-28  0:44       ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2008-05-28  1:04         ` Glenn Morris
2008-05-28  7:08           ` Espen Wiborg
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-05-28  7:57 Angelo Graziosi
2008-05-28  8:02 ` Glenn Morris

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