Re: bootstrap shell?

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 23 May 2008, Tobias Nygren wrote:
> I did give mksh a spin. It didn't fly with pkgsrc because it's
> handling of the "echo" shell builtin is broken. At least it deviates
> from BSD and SUSv3 sh(1). Try echo '\x40' under mksh.

SUSv3 allows a wide variety of behaviours for echo(1).  Whatever mksh
does is probably allowed.

I'd suggest something like this:

ECHO = printf "%s\n"
ECHO_N = printf "%s"

except that won't insert spaces when given multiple arguments.

--apb (Alan Barrett)