[PATCH 3/3] mediatek: mt7623: use bash for generating bootable images
Felix Fietkau
nbd at nbd.name
Tue Sep 8 04:31:50 EDT 2020
On 2020-09-08 10:26, David Woodhouse wrote:
> It turns out that 'echo -e' isn't portable; it doesn't work in the dash
> builtin echo and Ubuntu users are complaining.
>
> I can't even get octal (specified by POSIX) to work consistently because
> those variants of 'echo' which *do* support -e don't seem to interpret
> octalwithout it.
>
> I could switch to /bin/echo but using -e with that isn't actually
> portable *either* even though it works today.
>
> For now just stick with bash, and use its builtin. We may end up using
> something else entirely; perhaps perl.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org>
Have you considered using printf instead of echo?
- Felix
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