Darin A. England wrote: > I have the same problem trying build R 2.9.0 on AIX using the IBM > Visual Age compilers and GNU make. I'm trying to figure it out, but > any hints on a fix are greatly appreciated.
This seems to come from constructions of the form for i in $FOO : do .... ; done If $FOO is empty, then the resulting "for i in ;" is a syntax error with some versions of bash and sh. Current Linux versions of bash do not have that behaviour. As we saw in an earlier post, quotes around $FOO is not the answer. One workaround could be to upgrade bash. Another workaround could be to safeguard the for-loop with test "$FOO" != "" && for i in $FOO : do .... ; done in all of the Makefiles where this can be an issue. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalga...@biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
