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From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject: Re: groff-1.10
3 Mar 1998 17:51:46 -0800 :
Message-ID: <19980302202332.6198.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com>
To: Lassi DOT Tuura AT cern DOT ch
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

I remember this problem now!! You need to quote the variable in the for 
statement.

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>Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 09:00:22 +0100 (MET)
>From: "Lassi A. Tuura" <lat AT iki DOT fi>
>Reply-To: "Lassi A. Tuura" <Lassi DOT Tuura AT cern DOT ch>
>To: Morph <morph AT SoftHome DOT net>
>cc: Gnu-win32 <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>
>Subject: Re: groff-1.10
>
>|> if test -n ""; then \
>|>   for m in ; do \
>|>     rm -f $m-wrap; \
>|>     echo .cp 1 >$m-wrap; \
>|>     echo .so $m >>$m-wrap; \
>|>   done; \
>|> fi
>|> /bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
>|> /bin/sh: -c: line 1: `if test -n ""; then  for m in ; do  rm -f 
$m-wrap;
>|> echo .
>|> cp 1 >$m-wrap;  echo .so $m >>$m-wrap;  done;  fi'
>|> make[2]: *** [stamp-wrap] Error 2
>|> make[1]: *** [tmac] Error 2
>|> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
>You indeed need to have something in that for statement---empty 
argument
>list after `in' is not legal shell syntax.  As to finding the problem,
>the script seems to be coming from a makefile in which the `stamp-wrap'
>target is being built.  If multiple subdirectories are involved, try
>using the `--print-directories' option to make to see which 
subdirectory
>the makefile is in.  Then start looking for lines starting with
>`stamp-wrap:' in that makefile to see what make is trying to do. 
>
>//lat
>--
>Every old idea will be proposed again with a different name and a
>different presentation, regardless of whether it works. --RFC1925
>
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