Bug 3138

Summary:	echo -e in dash will print "-e"
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core	Reporter:	Andrei Gherzan <andrei>
Component:	core	Assignee:	Andrei Gherzan <andrei>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Medium	CC:	alexandrux.palalau, bluelightning, meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher, sgw
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	1.3 M5
Hardware:	All
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	---

Description Andrei Gherzan 2012-09-19 14:11:49 UTC

oe-core / yocto removed the prerequisite to have sh pointing to bash. This means that echo -e in dash will actually print "-e" and interpret backslashes by default. 

http://www.mail-archive.com/yocto@yoctoproject.org/msg06000.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550399

Now, in oe-core / yocto there are a couple of occurrences of "echo -e". Generally these are scripts with bash shebangs - so no problem here. But there are 4 classes which use this:

buildhistory.bbclass
package_rpm.bbclass
package_deb.bbclass
package_ipk.bbclass

My solution would be to replace echo with print in these cases.

Comment 1 Andrei Gherzan 2012-09-20 12:49:31 UTC

Fix merged to master.

Comment 2 Alexandru Palalau 2012-10-10 11:44:12 UTC

Switching status to verified on the master branch.