diff --git a/support/dependencies/dependencies.sh b/support/dependencies/dependencies.sh
index 8cfbcf6296..47d4d1045f 100755
--- a/support/dependencies/dependencies.sh
+++ b/support/dependencies/dependencies.sh
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ export LC_ALL=C
 # Verify that grep works
 echo "WORKS" | grep "WORKS" >/dev/null 2>&1
 if test $? != 0 ; then
-	printf "\ngrep doesn't work\n"
+	echo
+	echo "grep doesn't work"
 	exit 1
 fi
 
@@ -19,8 +20,9 @@ if test -n "$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" ; then
 	echo TRiGGER_start"$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"TRiGGER_end | grep ':\.TRiGGER_end' >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
 	echo TRiGGER_start"$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"TRiGGER_end | grep 'TRiGGER_start\.TRiGGER_end' >/dev/null 2>&1
 	if test $? = 0; then
-		printf "\nYou seem to have the current working directory in your"
-		printf "LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. This doesn't work.\n"
+		echo
+		echo "You seem to have the current working directory in your"
+		echo "LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. This doesn't work."
 		exit 1;
 	fi
 fi;
@@ -34,14 +36,16 @@ if test -n "$PATH" ; then
 	echo TRiGGER_start"$PATH"TRiGGER_end | grep ':\.TRiGGER_end' >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
 	echo TRiGGER_start"$PATH"TRiGGER_end | grep 'TRiGGER_start\.TRiGGER_end' >/dev/null 2>&1
 	if test $? = 0; then
-		printf "\nYou seem to have the current working directory in your"
-		printf "PATH environment variable. This doesn't work.\n"
+		echo
+		echo "You seem to have the current working directory in your"
+		echo "PATH environment variable. This doesn't work."
 		exit 1;
 	fi
 fi;
 
 if test -n "$PERL_MM_OPT" ; then
-    printf "\nYou have PERL_MM_OPT defined because Perl local::lib"
+    echo
+    echo "You have PERL_MM_OPT defined because Perl local::lib"
     echo "is installed on your system. Please unset this variable"
     echo "before starting Buildroot, otherwise the compilation of"
     echo "Perl related packages will fail"
@@ -50,30 +54,35 @@ fi
 
 # Verify that which is installed
 if ! which which > /dev/null ; then
-	printf "\nYou must install 'which' on your build machine\n";
+	echo
+	echo "You must install 'which' on your build machine";
 	exit 1;
 fi;
 
 if ! which sed > /dev/null ; then
-	printf "\nYou must install 'sed' on your build machine\n"
+	echo
+	echo "You must install 'sed' on your build machine"
 	exit 1
 fi
 
 # Check make
 MAKE=$(which make 2> /dev/null)
 if [ -z "$MAKE" ] ; then
-	printf "\nYou must install 'make' on your build machine\n";
+	echo
+	echo "You must install 'make' on your build machine";
 	exit 1;
 fi;
 MAKE_VERSION=$($MAKE --version 2>&1 | sed -e 's/^.* \([0-9\.]\)/\1/g' -e 's/[-\ ].*//g' -e '1q')
 if [ -z "$MAKE_VERSION" ] ; then
-	printf "\nYou must install 'make' on your build machine\n";
+	echo
+	echo "You must install 'make' on your build machine";
 	exit 1;
 fi;
 MAKE_MAJOR=$(echo $MAKE_VERSION | sed -e "s/\..*//g")
 MAKE_MINOR=$(echo $MAKE_VERSION | sed -e "s/^$MAKE_MAJOR\.//g" -e "s/\..*//g" -e "s/[a-zA-Z].*//g")
 if [ $MAKE_MAJOR -lt 3 ] || [ $MAKE_MAJOR -eq 3 -a $MAKE_MINOR -lt 81 ] ; then
-	printf "\nYou have make '$MAKE_VERSION' installed.  GNU make >=3.81 is required\n"
+	echo
+	echo "You have make '$MAKE_VERSION' installed.  GNU make >=3.81 is required"
 	exit 1;
 fi;
 
@@ -83,20 +92,23 @@ if [ -z "$COMPILER" ] ; then
 	COMPILER=$(which cc 2> /dev/null)
 fi;
 if [ -z "$COMPILER" ] ; then
-	printf "\nYou must install 'gcc' on your build machine\n";
+	echo
+	echo "You must install 'gcc' on your build machine";
 	exit 1;
 fi;
 
 COMPILER_VERSION=$($COMPILER -v 2>&1 | sed -n '/^gcc version/p' |
 	sed -e 's/^gcc version \([0-9\.]\)/\1/g' -e 's/[-\ ].*//g' -e '1q')
 if [ -z "$COMPILER_VERSION" ] ; then
-	printf "\nYou must install 'gcc' on your build machine\n";
+	echo
+	echo "You must install 'gcc' on your build machine";
 	exit 1;
 fi;
 COMPILER_MAJOR=$(echo $COMPILER_VERSION | sed -e "s/\..*//g")
 COMPILER_MINOR=$(echo $COMPILER_VERSION | sed -e "s/^$COMPILER_MAJOR\.//g" -e "s/\..*//g")
 if [ $COMPILER_MAJOR -lt 3 -o $COMPILER_MAJOR -eq 2 -a $COMPILER_MINOR -lt 95 ] ; then
-	printf "\nYou have gcc '$COMPILER_VERSION' installed.  gcc >= 2.95 is required\n"
+	echo
+	echo "You have gcc '$COMPILER_VERSION' installed.  gcc >= 2.95 is required"
 	exit 1;
 fi;
 
@@ -106,27 +118,31 @@ if [ -z "$CXXCOMPILER" ] ; then
 	CXXCOMPILER=$(which c++ 2> /dev/null)
 fi
 if [ -z "$CXXCOMPILER" ] ; then
-	printf "\nYou may have to install 'g++' on your build machine\n"
+	echo
+	echo "You may have to install 'g++' on your build machine"
 	#exit 1
 fi
 if [ ! -z "$CXXCOMPILER" ] ; then
 	CXXCOMPILER_VERSION=$($CXXCOMPILER -v 2>&1 | sed -n '/^gcc version/p' |
 		sed -e 's/^gcc version \([0-9\.]\)/\1/g' -e 's/[-\ ].*//g' -e '1q')
 	if [ -z "$CXXCOMPILER_VERSION" ] ; then
-		printf "\nYou may have to install 'g++' on your build machine\n"
+		echo
+		echo "You may have to install 'g++' on your build machine"
 	fi
 
 	CXXCOMPILER_MAJOR=$(echo $CXXCOMPILER_VERSION | sed -e "s/\..*//g")
 	CXXCOMPILER_MINOR=$(echo $CXXCOMPILER_VERSION | sed -e "s/^$CXXCOMPILER_MAJOR\.//g" -e "s/\..*//g")
 	if [ $CXXCOMPILER_MAJOR -lt 3 -o $CXXCOMPILER_MAJOR -eq 2 -a $CXXCOMPILER_MINOR -lt 95 ] ; then
-		printf "\nYou have g++ '$CXXCOMPILER_VERSION' installed.  g++ >= 2.95 is required\n"
+		echo
+		echo "You have g++ '$CXXCOMPILER_VERSION' installed.  g++ >= 2.95 is required"
 		exit 1
 	fi
 fi
 
 # Check bash
 if ! $SHELL --version 2>&1 | grep -q '^GNU bash'; then
-	printf "\nYou must install 'bash' on your build machine\n";
+	echo
+	echo "You must install 'bash' on your build machine";
 	exit 1;
 fi;
 
@@ -155,11 +171,13 @@ fi
 if grep ^BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT=y $BUILDROOT_CONFIG > /dev/null && \
    grep ^BR2_ENABLE_LOCALE=y       $BUILDROOT_CONFIG > /dev/null ; then
    if ! which locale > /dev/null ; then
-       printf "\nYou need locale support on your build machine to build a toolchain supporting locales\n"
+       echo
+       echo "You need locale support on your build machine to build a toolchain supporting locales"
        exit 1 ;
    fi
    if ! locale -a | grep -q -i utf8$ ; then
-       printf "\nYou need at least one UTF8 locale to build a toolchain supporting locales\n"
+       echo
+       echo "You need at least one UTF8 locale to build a toolchain supporting locales"
        exit 1 ;
    fi
 fi
@@ -167,7 +185,8 @@ fi
 if grep -q ^BR2_PACKAGE_CLASSPATH=y $BUILDROOT_CONFIG ; then
     for prog in javac jar; do
 	if ! which $prog > /dev/null ; then
-	    printf "\nYou must install '$prog' on your build machine\n" >&2
+	    echo >&2
+	    echo "You must install '$prog' on your build machine" >&2
 	    exit 1
 	fi
     done
@@ -175,7 +194,8 @@ fi
 
 if grep -q ^BR2_HOSTARCH_NEEDS_IA32_LIBS=y $BUILDROOT_CONFIG ; then
     if test ! -f /lib/ld-linux.so.2 ; then
-	printf "\nYour Buildroot configuration uses pre-built tools for the x86 architecture,"
+	echo
+	echo "Your Buildroot configuration uses pre-built tools for the x86 architecture,"
 	echo "but your build machine uses the x86-64 architecture without the 32 bits compatibility"
 	echo "library."
 	echo "If you're running a Debian/Ubuntu distribution, install the libc6:i386,"
@@ -188,7 +208,8 @@ fi
 
 if grep -q ^BR2_HOSTARCH_NEEDS_IA32_COMPILER=y $BUILDROOT_CONFIG ; then
     if ! echo "int main(void) {}" | gcc -m32 -x c - ; then
-	printf "\nYour Buildroot configuration needs a compiler capable of building 32 bits binaries."
+	echo
+	echo "Your Buildroot configuration needs a compiler capable of building 32 bits binaries."
 	echo "If you're running a Debian/Ubuntu distribution, install the gcc-multilib package."
 	echo "For other distributions, refer to their documentation."
 	exit 1