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Re: zsh-workers: zsh-3.1.4

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From: Chet Ramey <chet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: zsh-workers: zsh-3.1.4
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 12:08:47 -0400
Cc: zefram@xxxxxxxxx, zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, chet@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: Message from schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx of Mon, 1 Jun 1998 08:56:34 -0700 (id <980601085634.ZM26365@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>)
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Reply-to: chet@xxxxxxxxxxx

> "make clean" fails when /bin/sh is bash because $(SUBDIRS) is empty in
> Doc and Etc and maybe elsewhere.  Bash gets a syntax error at
> 
> 	for subdir in ; do
> 
> even though that is prefixed with "if test -n '$(SUBDIRS)'" because it
> apparently wants to parse the entire line before executing any of it.

Yes, this is how sh is supposed to work.  A real, honest-to-god Bourne
shell (SunOS 4.1.4) does not accept an empty list after `in' either.

odin(3)$ sh
${HOST}($SHLVL)\$ for x in ; do echo z ; done
syntax error: `;' unexpected
${HOST}($SHLVL)\$ if test -n ''
> then
> for x in ; do echo z ; done
syntax error: `;' unexpected


-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer

Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University	Internet: chet@xxxxxxxxxxx

References:
- Re: zsh-workers: zsh-3.1.4
  - From: Bart Schaefer

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