From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 00:38:47 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: Makefile: Switch from echo to printf for better portability.
X-Git-Tag: 0.1~259
X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?p=notmuch;a=commitdiff_plain;h=af4928eb3a0a40d7f3d2a3475289da1df5b9ce4f

Makefile: Switch from echo to printf for better portability.

Some systems have an echo implementation which doesn't know how to
interpret a sequence of "\n". The word is that printf should be much
more portable, so let's try that instead.
---

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 17be8b48..7a9e44c6 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -49,11 +49,11 @@ include Makefile.local
 # user how to enable verbose compiles.
 ifeq ($(V),)
 quiet_DOC := "Use \"$(MAKE) V=1\" to see the verbose compile lines.\n"
-quiet = @echo $(quiet_DOC)$(eval quiet_DOC:=)"  $1	$@"; $($1)
+quiet = @printf $(quiet_DOC)$(eval quiet_DOC:=)"  $1	$@\n"; $($1)
 endif
 # The user has explicitly enabled quiet compilation.
 ifeq ($(V),0)
-quiet = @echo "  $1	$@"; $($1)
+quiet = @printf "  $1	$@\n"; $($1)
 endif
 # Otherwise, print the full command line.
 quiet ?= $($1)