[Mailman-Users] mailman install problems (syntax error atline1: `; ' unexpected)

[CJ Keist]

If this helps.  I'm on Solaris 10 10/09 s10s_u8wos_08a SPARC. This make 
installed failed with

tcsh - version 6.12.00
bash - version 3.00.16(1)

As for bourne shell, don't know how to get the version info.

On 8/7/10 9:13 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>
>    
>> Mark Sapiro writes:
>>      
>>> CJ Keist wrote:
>>>        
>>      
>>>> I simply commented out the for p loop:
>>>>
>>>>          #for p in $(PACKAGES); \
>>>>          
>>      
>>> That is a perfectly acceptable workaround, but the question is why
>>> doesn't your make properly handle
>>>
>>>     for p in   ; do ... ; done
>>>        
>> Because make doesn't (shouldn't) do anything with commands except
>> substitute make variables, then pass them to the shell.  Bourne shells
>> require the tokens following "in" to constitute a list.  The idiom for
>> an empty list is the empty string.
>>
>> One way to handle this in GNU Make is
>>
>> ifeq($(PACKAGES),)
>> PACKAGES = ""
>> endif
>>
>> (Untested, IIRC -- the point is that make doesn't care about the
>> quotation marks at all, so it passes the literal string '""' to the
>> shell as the value of the make variable PACKAGES.)
>>      
> I agree that the underlying issue is with the shell, but in at least
> these bash versions:
>
> GNU bash, version 3.2.49(22)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)
>
> GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release (i386-apple-darwin10.0)
>
> GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (i686-redhat-linux-gnu)
>
> the construct
>
>   for p in ; do echo Huh? $p ; done
>
> is accepted and does nothing. Further, since 2.1.12, the 'normal' value
> of PACKAGES in this Makefile is null, and this is the first report of
> this problem I've seen.
>
> If there are in fact versions of sh/bash that don't accept the "for p
> in ;" construct, then I'd like to fix this in the Makefile, but I'd
> like to have a way to a) see the failure, and b) test the fix.
>
>    

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