Re: Problems with echo. (echo period)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:14:31 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Aaron Shatters <address@hidden>
> 
> As I noted previously, there are many workarounds to this problem.  I am 
> interested in fixing the root cause.  After all of this investigation, do we 
> have consensus that this is a limitation of make?  More importantly, do we 
> have consensus that it should be fixed?  We seem to have run out of reasons 
> for not fixing this problem.

No, I don't agree that this is a limitation of Make.  Make just
invokes the shell built-in, and the shell built-in behaves like it
does from the command line.

I remain unconvinced that we should ``fix'' this just because this
fundamental incompatibility between shells sometimes causes trouble in
Makefiles that assume Posix `echo' where it isn't guaranteed to exist.