Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Problem with make Summary: You're not telling me something Keywords: make for sysV Message-ID: <550@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 27 Sep 89 12:20:24 GMT References: <715@bbking.KSP.Unisys.COM> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corp R&D Center Lines: 15 In article <715@bbking.KSP.Unisys.COM>, bcarb@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@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