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From: peterk@foetus.syd.sgi.oz.au (Peter Kerney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: shells inside Makefiles
Message-ID: <1990Oct23.055715.6973@foetus.syd.sgi.oz.au>
Date: 23 Oct 90 05:57:15 GMT
References: <28936@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Sydney, Australia.
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From article <28936@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, by seth@miro.Berkeley.EDU (Seth Teller):
> someone (can't remember who) posted a question about shell constructs
> inside makefiles, and someone else (can't remember who that was, either)
> answered something about complicated things not being possible...
> 
> well, although it's ugly, you can do anything inside a makefile.  
> here's a while loop, all one line (sorry it's so long):
> 

I confess, It was me. I posted the original article.

The problems is not ussimply using shells in Makefiles. The problem is
using 'csh' (THE C-SHELL) from within a Makefile.

The example you gave was a Bourne shell

eg:    while [ test ]
	   done

This is allowed by the shell to be on a single line.
The makefile I want to work is one that uses the C-shell. (I like it better)
Here is a simple test that is anyone can get to work I would love it.

all:
	foreach i (1 2)
		echo $i
	end

If you can get this to work, everything else is possible.

PS: All replies I received gave examples of using the Bourne shell.

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Peter Kerney. Silicon Graphics, Sydney, Australia. (peterk@syd.sgi.oz.au)

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