#586: wrong usage of VERBOSE in Cactus make files -----------------------+---------------------------------------------------- Reporter: eschnett | Owner: knarf Type: defect | Status: accepted Priority: major | Milestone: ET_2011_10 Component: Cactus | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: -----------------------+----------------------------------------------------
Comment (by knarf):
{{{ echo "" }}} without the -n option produces an empty line (a newline is output). The -n option prevents this newline, at least the echo command I know does have that option. The "-n" isn't output on my system. Can you check if your echo command lacks it? That would explain why lines containing "-n" are output there. If there are systems with the echo command lacking this option we would have to do something else instead. This line is supposed to simply do nothing; we should be able to do come up with another command for that, maybe a single ":" might work just as well, at least when I test it in sh, tcsh and bash.