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+2007-01-22  Kevin Ryde  <user42@zip.com.au>
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+	* configure.in (AC_INIT): Don't use "echo -n", it's not portable and
+	in particular fails on solaris (resulting in literal "-n"s going into
+	the output, making the resulting configure unusable).
+
 2006-12-27  Kevin Ryde  <user42@zip.com.au>
 
 	* configure.in (pthread_get_stackaddr_np, pthread_sigmask): New tests.