Bug 261079 – app-portage/euses uses echo -n that does not works on Solaris

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo/Alt

[Description Timothy Redaelli (RETIRED) 2009-03-03 16:28:25 UTC]

echo -n is not supported on Solaris, you have to use printf

I attach a patch to fix it

[Comment 1 Timothy Redaelli (RETIRED) 2009-03-03 16:30:05 UTC]

Created attachment 183776 [details, diff]
files/euses-2.5.5-printf.patch

[Comment 2 Timothy Redaelli (RETIRED) 2009-03-03 16:33:22 UTC]

I know I should report it only upstream, but you can have it also with a bizarre shell under linux

[Comment 3 Fabian Groffen 2009-03-03 18:38:17 UTC]

If you use shell internal echo you might get this problem (esp. with /bin/sh on Solaris), if you use echo from path, in Prefix you should be safe (as it is provided by coreutils)

[Comment 4 Timothy Redaelli (RETIRED) 2009-03-03 19:58:34 UTC]

I know, but popen uses always /bin/sh. So we cannot change it

[Comment 5 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2009-03-04 16:04:31 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I know I should report it only upstream, but you can have it also with a
> bizarre shell under linux

It's OK to report it here. Switching to printf should be trivial. I will do a version release soon.

[Comment 6 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2009-03-18 18:51:48 UTC]

Thanks for reporting. Fixed in 2.5.6.