From: "Paul D. Smith" <psmith AT BayNetworks DOT COM>
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Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 15:18:31 -0400 (EDT)
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Make 3.78 is in pretest (fwd)
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%% Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:

  ez> While running tests in different environments, I found something that
  ez> looks like a bug: "echo" is not mentioned as the built-in shell
  ez> command for the Unixy shell.  The reason is that the original Unix
  ez> code doesn't do that either (see sh_cmds[] array in
  ez> job.c:construct_command_argv_internal).

  ez> I suspect that this is a bug, at least in the MSDOS branch, but before
  ez> I go ahead and add "echo", could you please tell why does the Unix
  ez> version omits it?

Because many UNIX shells don't have a builtin echo.  In fact, I'd say
the large majority of /bin/sh's on UNIX systems don't have one, and
/bin/sh is the shell make defaults to using.

If all MSDOS shells do have it (what's out there besides bash?), then
there's no reason not to introduce it for MSDOS, tho.

I'll look at the rest of these changes, thx.

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