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

[Mark Sapiro]

CJ Keist wrote:

>Running the bash command came back to the prompt with no errors.
>
>
>On 8/7/10 10:26 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>> bash -c 'for p in ; do echo Huh? $p ; done'


That's the expected result.

Per your immediately previous post, it seems the issue was some
incompatibility with a specific (non-GNU) make. Instead of commenting
the offending portion of the makefile, we could (expanding on
Stephen's suggestion) make it

ifneq ($(strip $(PACKAGES)),)
    for p in $(PACKAGES); \
    do \
        gunzip -c $(srcdir)/$$p.tar.gz | (cd $(PKGDIR) ; tar xf -); \
        (cd $(PKGDIR)/$$p ; umask 02 ; PYTHONPATH=$(PYTHONLIBDIR)
$(PYTHON) $(SETUPCMD)); \
    done
endif

however, the ifneq ... endif is a GNU make construct and that itself
may not work in non-GNU makes.

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