What was wrong with the old "$(PROGRAMS)" syntax? Why couldn't we just keep
that, rather than going down this road?
Read: I never understood the motivation for the original change, which then
led to this recent breakage.
Cheers,
-g
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 08:34:53PM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> fielding 01/04/12 13:34:53
>
> Modified: build rules.mk
> Log:
> Fix the shell syntax error that occurs when a for list is empty due to
> an empty variable expansion.
>
> Revision Changes Path
> 1.50 +3 -1 httpd-2.0/build/rules.mk
>
> Index: rules.mk
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/cvs/httpd-2.0/build/rules.mk,v
> retrieving revision 1.49
> retrieving revision 1.50
> diff -u -r1.49 -r1.50
> --- rules.mk 2001/04/12 07:56:16 1.49
> +++ rules.mk 2001/04/12 20:34:52 1.50
> @@ -173,8 +173,10 @@
> install-p: $(targets) $(install_targets)
> @if test -n '$(PROGRAMS)'; then \
> test -d $(bindir) || $(MKINSTALLDIRS) $(bindir); \
> - for i in $(PROGRAMS); do \
> + for i in $(PROGRAMS) ""; do \
> + if test "x$$i" != "x"; then \
> $(INSTALL_PROGRAM) $$i $(bindir); \
> + fi; \
> done; \
> fi
>
>
>
>
--
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
