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Re: [patch] libjava: avoid using escape sequence with undefined behaviour in echo
Andreas Schwab writes:
> Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
>
> > I do think requiring a POSIX-compliant shell is reasonable.
>
> POSIX compliance wouldn't help much here, since it makes the issue
> implementation-defined. A better alternative might be to use printf
> instead.
Looking at the make manual printf isn't listed under the recommended
tools you should use, therefore the workaround using sed. Anyway, I
discovered too late, that this code was removed with the last
classpath merge, so it's only an issue on the branch.
Matthias