[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] replace echo with printf in help/help_diff.sh
Corey Hickey
bugfood-ml at fatooh.org
Fri Aug 18 04:24:22 CEST 2006
Corey Hickey wrote:
> Hi.
>
> The attached patch replaces two 'echo' commands with 'printf' commands
> in help/help_diff.sh. This fixes compilation with a non-English
> translation when dash is the shell.
>
> Dash echo interprets '\' as an escape such that "\n" becomes a real
> newline, "\t" becomes a tab, etc. The same problem came up on
> ffmpeg-devel a couple days ago, too, and printf was the solution.
>
> Diego gave his "ok" to this patch on mplayer-advusers, but I wanted to
> post it here just to be safe. I'll apply it tomorrow unless somebody
> objects.
Applied.
-Corey
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