compile error mol-0.9.70

[Andreas Schwab]

Samuel Rydh <samuel@ibrium.se> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 12:14:39PM -0500, FW Owen wrote:
>> I just installed XFree86-4.4.0 and kde-3.2.1 from source so 
>> I know that I have a good working setup.  I'm pretty sure 
>> this problem is in mol.
>> 
>> [root@green mol-0.9.70]# make
>> + Entering lxdialog
>> + Entering kconfig
>> /bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
>> /bin/sh: -c: line 1: `for x in  ; do  rm 
>> -rf .objs-ppc/.artmp ; mkdir .objs-ppc/.artmp ;  ln 
>> $x .objs-ppc/.artmp/lib.a ;  cd .objs-ppc/.artmp ;  ar x 
>> lib.a || exit $? ; cd ../../ ;  ar q .objs-ppc/libkconf.a_ 
>> `find .objs-ppc/.artmp -name *.o -o -name .dummy` || exit 
>> $? ;  done ; true'
>> make[2]: *** [.objs-ppc/libkconf.a] Error 2
>> make[1]: *** [sub-kconfig-all] Error 2
>> make: *** [bootstrap] Error 1
>
> I'm not sure why this generates an error on your setup; it really
> shouldn't.

Some versions of bash makes omitting the word list after `in' a syntax
error (IIRC the previous POSIX standard didn't allow this syntax).  To
avoid the error, you should use something like this:

        list='$(...)'; for x in $$list; do ...

Andreas.

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