From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: make bootsrap problems Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 20:44:42 -0400 Message-ID: <38prr745qd.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <20080527055600.04681853@cs.sunysb.edu> <85bq2suivg.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <874p8jvpfr.fsf@grumblesmurf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1211935601 16324 80.91.229.12 (28 May 2008 00:46:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 00:46:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, kifer@cs.sunysb.edu To: Espen Wiborg Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 28 02:47:20 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K19p1-0002vZ-8A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 May 2008 02:47:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45290 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K19oF-0004jm-W0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 May 2008 20:46:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K19oA-0004jh-S9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 May 2008 20:46:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K19o9-0004jO-E8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 May 2008 20:46:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45924 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K19o9-0004jL-Ac for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 May 2008 20:46:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:44436) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K19o8-0006Bi-Nl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 May 2008 20:46:24 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1K19mV-00014g-2g; Tue, 27 May 2008 20:44:43 -0400 X-Spook: IMF Indigo Capricorn enemy of the state KGB pipeline Ron X-Ran: `48HYjNN-M:tOa-eTxPmljQW^G:50Jl+*/FdUNid+AI0Luj[&Of^cC3u5cm7MT.-z]o~I# X-Hue: red X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Tue, 27 May 2008 15:29:00 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:97848 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:22468 Archived-At: 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.