Re: [PATCH 2/2] Makefile: work around ksh's failure to handle missing list argument to for loop

Am 7/4/2010 20:37, schrieb Michael J Gruber:

Brandon Casey venit, vidit, dixit 02.07.2010 20:50:

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In this case, the for loop in the Makefile expands to look like this:

   for p in ; do

and ksh complains like this:

   /bin/ksh: syntax error at line 15 : `;' unexpected

The existing attempt to work around this issue, introduced by 70b89f87,
tried to protect the for loop by first testing whether REMOTE_CURL_ALIASES
was empty, but it does not seem to work.  So adopt Bruce Stephens's

What does that mean? Either it works or it doesn't. I did work back
then. Does it (i.e.: the test for emtyness) fail to work for certain shells?

Before the test for emptyness can happen, the complete statement must be
parsed, but ksh finds a syntax error in the statement and, therefore,
cannot even begin to execute the statement. (ksh doesn't follow POSIX in
this regard, where this would not be a syntax error.)

-- Hannes