On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Mark Galeck (CW) <[email protected]>wrote:
> I have asked this question before, in an isolated example, and Paul said > this is no problem what I am doing, but... I have rare, impossible to > reproduce, yet universally fatal failures... I just want to make double > sure, can anybody tell me there is anything wrong with this (I want to > append the list to the file, and the reason why I can't just echo > everything, is that this is Windows and there is command line length > limitation, and the list can exceed that). > > > $(foreach item, $(very_long_list), $(shell echo $(item)>>foobar.txt)) > > > What I see in those rare unreproducible failures, is that some random > element of in the middle of the very long list does not get appended to the > file... > > Knowing absolutely nothing more about it, my first check would be to verify there are no shell metacharacters in any of the words in $(item). --ShawnH _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
