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I am trying to have my Makefile echo text without the trailing new line, but am unable to. I am experiencing the behavior on OS X (on Linux everything works as expected). Makefile a: @echo -n "hello" b: @echo -n hello c: @/bin/echo -n "hello" Output: $make a -n hello $make b hello$make c hello$ In other words, the make a is broken. What exactly is happening? Is make using a built-in echo? Clearly the presence of the double quotes changes the behavior, but why? Update As discovered by @chepner, using the full path to /bin/echo in the makefile understands the -n flag correctly.
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