Portability: use printf(1) instead of echo -n (#1676)

MacOS' implementation of echo(1) does not support the -n flag.

errors/Makefile.am

@@ -56,16 +56,19 @@ $(TRANSLATE_LANGUAGES): $(ERROR_TEMPLATES)
 NOTIDY=`$(PO2HTML) --help | grep -o "[-]-notidy"`
 
 .po.lang:
-	if test "$(PO2HTML)" != "" && test "$(PO2HTML)" != "no" && test "$(PO2HTML)" != "off" && test -f $(top_srcdir)/errors/en.po; then \
-	    lang=`basename $@ .lang`; \
+	@if test "$(PO2HTML)" != "" && test "$(PO2HTML)" != "no" && test "$(PO2HTML)" != "off" && test -f $(top_srcdir)/errors/en.po; then \
+	    lang=$(@:.lang=); \
 	    mkdir -p $(top_builddir)/errors/$$lang; \
-	    echo -n "Translate '$$lang' ..."; \
+	    echo "Translating $$lang ..."; \
 	    for f in $(ERROR_TEMPLATES); do \
 		page=`basename $$f`; \
 		$(PO2HTML) $(NOTIDY) --progress=none -i $(top_srcdir)/errors/$$lang.po -t $(top_srcdir)/errors/$$f >$(top_builddir)/errors/$$lang/$$page || exit 1; \
 	    done; \
 	    cp $(top_srcdir)/errors/templates/error-details.txt $(top_builddir)/errors/$$lang/error-details.txt || exit 1; \
-	    echo "done."; \
+	    echo "Done translating $$lang"; \
+	else \
+	    lang=$(@:.lang=); \
+		echo "Translation of $$lang disabled\n"; \
 	fi; \
 	touch $@
 

scripts/source-maintenance.sh

@@ -616,14 +616,13 @@ printRawAmFile ()
     echo "## $GeneratedByMe"
     echo
 
-    echo -n "$1 ="
+    printf "%s =" "$1"
     # Only some files are formed from *.po filenames, but all such files
     # should list *.lang filenames instead.
     git ls-files $2$3 | sed -e s%$2%%g -e 's%\.po%\.lang%g' | while read f; do
-        echo " \\"
-        echo -n "    ${f}"
+        printf ' \\\n\t%s' "${f}"
     done
-    echo ""
+    printf '\n'
 }
 
 generateAmFile ()

scripts/spell-check.sh

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 set -e
 
-echo -n "Codespell version: "
+printf "Codespell version: "
 if ! codespell --version; then
     echo "This script requires codespell which was not found."
     exit 1

scripts/update-pot.sh

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ msgcat ./pot/*.pot -s -o errpages.pot.new &&
 
 ## Update all existing dictionaries with the new content ...
 for f in `ls -1 ./*.po` ; do
-	echo -n "Update: ${f} ... "
+	printf "Update: %s ... " "${f}"
 	msgmerge --verbose -s -o ${f}.new ${f} errpages.pot
 	chown --reference=${f} ${f}.new
 	mv ${f}.new ${f}

test-suite/buildtest.sh

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ if test -e ${config} ; then
 	echo "BUILD: ${config}"
 	. ${config}
 else
-	echo -n "BUILD ERROR: Unable to locate test configuration '${config}' from " && pwd
+	printf "BUILD ERROR: Unable to locate test configuration '%s' from " "${config}" && pwd
 	exit 1;
 fi