Re: [PATCH] Nicer 'make dist' output.

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Eric,

thanks for the feedback.

* Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 04:18:03PM CEST:
> 
> I like the shorter output.  However, ...
> 
> >         new_top_distdir=$$reldir; \
> > +       echo " (cd $$subdir && $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) 
> > top_distdir="$$new_top_distdir" distdir="$$new_distdir" \\"; \
> > +       echo "     am__remove_distdir=: am__skip_length_check=: distdir)"; \
> 
> Not portable.  You can't mix echo and \, since not all echo interpret \.

Well, the backslash is not to be interpreted by echo.  I don't know of
any echo that has a problem with a single backslash
  echo "\\"

or
  echo '\'

for that matter, though.  Backslash is only problematic if it is
followed by characters that might combine to an escape sequence,
not as last one in the line.

Cheers,
Ralf