sorta newb help compiling samba

[Karl Vogel]

>> On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:44:14 +0200, 
>> Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> said:

P> Why don't you use echo -n which suppresses the newline instead of involving
P> another program to do something that echo can do on its own?  This is how
P> FreeBSD does it in its system scripts.

   Some of my scripts date back to 1994, and they've been run under FreeBSD,
   Linux, and Solaris using /bin/sh, ATT Korn shell, Solaris's version
   of the Korn shell (which is sure as hell *NOT* the same thing), pdksh,
   and bash.  Unfortunately, "echo -n" hasn't behaved consistently, so I
   used the (pretty gross) hack

      # echo without newline
      necho () {
        echo "$*" | tr -d '\012'
      }

P> And according to
P>   test -d /usr/bin || exit 0 # /usr not mounted
P> Woudln't it be more compliant to exit 1 to signal an error due to /usr not
P> being mounted?

   Probably.  The only times I've ever tried to do anything without /usr
   mounted is when running single-user, so a message saying /usr/bin is
   missing wouldn't be a bad idea.

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