Subject: Re: USE_TOOLS and tool path variables?
To: Hauke Fath <hf@spg.tu-darmstadt.de>
From: Dieter Baron <dillo@danbala.tuwien.ac.at>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 08/28/2007 16:50:38 
In article <f06240801c2f9d5d543b6@[130.83.118.66]> Hauke wrote:
: Looking closer, it seems that pkgsrc doesn't provide ${TOOLS_ECHO} 
: with a path, unlike for other tools. [...]

: What is the reason for echo's special role here?

  echo calls the shell builtin, /bin/echo does not.  echo is therefore
faster.

					yours,
					dillo