Re: Proposed patch: Unroll installation loops

[Matthias Neeracher]

On Aug 31, 2004, at 11:42 PM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:

> Matthias Neeracher writes:
>
> > lilypond uses the $(foreach) facility of gnumake in several places in
> > its installation. While I'm sure this is a little bit more efficient,
> > it creates problems on MacOS, where due to the fink build setup, paths
> > are often about 30 characters longer: Since foreach creates a single
> > shell line for the whole installation command, the resulting line
> > sometimes exceeded the maximum permissible argument size.
>
> What shell are you using?

bash, although at the time I did this patch, it might have been zsh

>  Have you considered sending a bug report for the shell?

Your message actually prompted me to retry without the patch, and right 
now I can't reproduce the failure. However, I'm sure that it would 
return the second I omitted the patch :-)

If I may ask conversely, what is there to be gained from using 
$(foreach) ? It seems that the output produced by for is a little bit 
more compact and readable, and the results are identical.

Matthias