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According to Alessio DOT MASSARO AT oxinst DOT co DOT uk on 3/2/2006 6:10 AM:
> In the Cygwin bash the following statement
> 
> for file in ./SOME_EMPTY_DIR/* ; do do_it_on $file ; done
> 
> executes the following once because of how globbing is done.
> 
> do_it_on ./SOME_EMPTY_DIR/*

Correct - POSIX requires that.  However, bash also has the 'shopt -s
nullglob' which may help in your situation.

> 
> Unfortunately the gcc 4.0.2 makefiles do use this on possibly empty
> directories and break.
> 
> Does anybody know how to solve this, please?

If it hurts, don't do it.  Report the bug to the gcc folks, if they aren't
being robust enough to protect against an empty directory.

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