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Re: Problem with FOR statements in command lines?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Problem with FOR statements in command lines? |
Date: |
Fri, 24 Oct 2003 16:23:37 +0200 |
> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 11:17:34 -0700
> From: Scott Bussinger <address@hidden>
>
> > Try
> > $(shell for %%a in (s\*.bak) do echo %%a)
>
> Well not exactly. If you do that you get:
>
> V:\todo\test>gnumake -ftest
> t\t.bak
> gnumake: Interrupt/Exception caught (code = 0xc0000005, addr = 0x4fe7c0)
>
> which I assume is because the $(shell) expands out to a string and then
> it tries to execute it which in this case it can't. Hard to tell from
> the error message though. But this variation seems to work:
>
> default:
> cmd /c rem $(shell for %%a in (t\*.bak) do echo %%a)
>
> where the $(shell) runs the command and all the other junk is just so
> the output gets ignored.
>
> Seems pretty kludgy though -- any reason why this doesn't work as
> expected?
Sounds like a bug in the ported Make. Perhaps someone on the MinGW
list will be able to help you more or even suggest how to fix the bug.
- Problem with FOR statements in command lines?, Scott Bussinger, 2003/10/23
- Re: Problem with FOR statements in command lines?, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/10/23
- Re: Problem with FOR statements in command lines?, Scott Bussinger, 2003/10/23
- Re: Problem with FOR statements in command lines?,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Problem with FOR statements in command lines?, Earnie Boyd, 2003/10/26
- GNU make woes! [WAS:Re: Problem with FOR statements in command lines?], Manu, 2003/10/26
- Re: GNU make woes! [WAS:Re: Problem with FOR statements in command lines?], Paul D. Smith, 2003/10/27
- Re: GNU make woes! [WAS:Re: Problem with FOR statements in command lines?], Earnie Boyd, 2003/10/27
- Re: GNU make woes! [WAS:Re: Problem with FOR statements in command lines?], Paul D. Smith, 2003/10/27
- Re: Problem with FOR statements in command lines?, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/10/27
- Re: Problem with FOR statements in command lines?, Earnie Boyd, 2003/10/27
Re: Problem with FOR statements in command lines?, Greg Chicares, 2003/10/23