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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
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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