Re: [microblaze-uclinux] Error Compiling Kernel

[Yasushi SHOJI <yashi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At Mon, 08 Nov 2004 09:12:41 +1000,
John Williams wrote:
> 
> Yasushi SHOJI wrote:
> > John Williams wrote:
> >>Welson Sun wrote:
> >>>OK, I just tried this again, but selected mbvanilla_net. This time the 
> >>>error is:
> >>>for i in ; do make -C $i romfs || exit  ; done
> >>>/bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
> >>>/bin/sh: -c: line 1: `for i in ; do make -C $i romfs || exit  ; done'
> >>
> >>Hmm, haven't seen this in a long time.  Are you using an ancient RedHat 
> >>distro by any chance?  RH 6/7?  I seem to recall it was fixed bny 
> >>upgrading to RH8.0 or better.
> > 
> > that depends on bash version.  as john is saying, ancient redhat has
> > old version of bash, which doesn't take empty list.
> 
> Indeed - so perhaps building and installing a newer version of bash is 
> slightly less drastic than a Linux re-install! ;-)

or just fix the make file not depends on bash version:

dirs=$(DIRS) ; \    # <--- you need this line to avoid empty list
for i in $$dirs; do .....

best,
--
          yashi
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