[Michael Tokarev - Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 11:39:48PM +0400] > Ok, some more to this. > > It turns out dash's built-in echo command interprets \nnn octal > sequences by default, and there's no way to turn that off. So, > for example, sed-zoffset command from arch/x86/boot/Makefile > (which includes \1 \2 etc substitutions for sed), when echoed > in verbose mode (V=1), produces.. interesting characters (with > ascii code 1 and 2). > > It's not practival to replace V=1's echo with /bin/echo I think. > > So I'd say it's not a bug in the build system after all, but > a bug in dash. Well, at least this expanding-by-default didn't > trigger another very-difficult-to-find bug (hopefully), but it > has good potential. > > I'll file a bug report against dash. > > /mjt > OK, thanks Michael! -- Cyrill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
