Non-portable echo usage in sysdeps/unix/make-syscalls.sh [BZ#16704 related]

[Jakub Bogusz]

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 05:34:09PM +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Feb 2015, Jakub Bogusz wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Some paths of make-syscalls.sh script use echo in a way specific to
> > bash or echo from GNU coreutils, expecting not to interpret escape
> > sequences by default.
> > It's contrary to what POSIX specs say and the way that echo from
> > some other shells (like ksh or dash) works (escape sequences are
> > always interpreted or are interpreted by default).
> 
> Problems building with dash are bug 16704, so include [BZ #16704] in the 
> ChangeLog entry.  Is this a complete fix (if so, the bug number would also 
> go in NEWS when committing and then the bug would be closed), or does it 
> just fix one of several issues building with dash?

I didn't test build with dash; this patch is sufficient to build glibc
2.21 on x86/x86_64/x32 archs using mksh or pdksh as /bin/sh.


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