Problem with make

Wm E Davidsen Jr davidsen at crdos1.crd.ge.COM
Wed Sep 27 22:20:24 AEST 1989


In article <715 at bbking.KSP.Unisys.COM>, bcarb at KSP.Unisys.COM (Brian Carb) writes:
|  I'm having a problem using a 'for' statement with 'make'.  Consider
|  the following trivial makefile:
|  
|  test:
|  	for i in 1 2 3 4; do echo "hello"; done

  I tried this on three SysV machines and it worked on all of them. You
are doing something other than what you think you are, because this
flies on Xenix, Stellar, and Unicos.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen at crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon



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