$NetBSD: patch-aa,v 1.6 2012/11/05 16:27:38 jperkin Exp $

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=583283

--- common/mkiconlinks.sh.orig	2008-09-22 15:09:10.000000000 +0000
+++ common/mkiconlinks.sh
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ read NEXTLINE 
 while [ ! -z "$NEXTLINE" ] ; do
 
 	# Skip lines beginning with '#'
-	if [ ! "${NEXTLINE:0:1}" == '#' ]; then
+	if [ ! X"`echo ${NEXTLINE} | cut -c 1`" = X'#' ]; then
 		#Extract first field, minus its trailing colon
 		ORIG_FILE=`echo $NEXTLINE | awk '/:/{print $1}' | sed -e 's/://'`