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Re: unable to use make on SGI

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From: Le Tin
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 02:25
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In article <1992Dec16.011758.15525@sunova.ssc.gov> chow@sdc1.ssc.gov writes:
>Hi,
>   I have tried to use make on an SGI machine.
>But the syntax seems like is totally different from
>other machines.  The normal dependency "making"
>mechanism works fine.  But I can't do any
>looping with the make.  For examples,
>
>for i in $(SUBDIR)"";
>do
>echo "$$i";
>make
>done
>
>The make always coomplains
>for: command not found
>
>Can anyone give a hand on this?  Please.
>
>Ivan

  You probably need to add a definition for the macro SHELL.
Added the line SHELL=/bin/sh to your makefile.  SysV make requires
that macro.  Otherwise shell commands in your makefile will be
executed by your login shell.  I bet you are using csh, which will
not know what to do with "for"

Regards,
Tin Le

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