Re: [O] Is doc/org-version.tex generation broken?

[Kyle Meyer]

Kyle Meyer <address@hidden> writes:

> Dale <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

>> Is this something screwed up in my environment or are others seeing this as
>> well?
>
> I'm guessing that I should rewrite the command in a more portable way.
> Not sure what that is offhand.

Can you verify that the below change works on your system?

Thanks.

-- >8 --
Subject: [PATCH] doc/Makefile: Use printf to generate org-version.tex

* doc/Makefile (org-version.tex): Use printf instead of echo to
increase portability.

By default GNU coreutil's echo disables the interpretation of
backslash escapes (-E option), but this isn't the case for some echo
variants.

Reported-by: Dale <address@hidden>
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2017-06/msg00619.html>
---
 doc/Makefile | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/Makefile b/doc/Makefile
index 87f8c2781..e17d4415b 100644
--- a/doc/Makefile
+++ b/doc/Makefile
@@ -34,11 +34,11 @@ org-version.inc:    org.texi
        @echo "@set DATE $(DATE)" >> org-version.inc
 
 org-version.tex:       orgcard.tex
-       @echo "org-version: $(ORGVERSION) ($(GITVERSION))"
-       @echo "% automatically generated, do not edit"  > org-version.tex
-       @echo "\def\orgversionnumber{$(ORGVERSION)}" >> org-version.tex
-       @echo "\def\versionyear{$(YEAR)}" >> org-version.tex
-       @echo "\def\year{$(YEAR)}" >> org-version.tex
+       @printf "org-version: $(ORGVERSION) ($(GITVERSION))\n"
+       @printf "%% automatically generated, do not edit\n" > org-version.tex
+       @printf "\def\orgversionnumber{$(ORGVERSION)}\n" >> org-version.tex
+       @printf "\def\\\\versionyear{$(YEAR)}\n" >> org-version.tex
+       @printf "\def\year{$(YEAR)}\n" >> org-version.tex
 
 install:       org
        if [ ! -d $(DESTDIR)$(infodir) ]; then $(MKDIR) $(DESTDIR)$(infodir); 
else true; fi ;
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