[Mailman-Users] error while running make install

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro.net
Thu Mar 8 03:43:32 CET 2012


Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>Con Wieland writes:
>
> > for p in   ; \
>
>This is the problem.  There is a variable that should contain a list,
>and it's empty.  I think you can probably get past this by wrapping
>the variable in "" (not ''), but I don't know if that is TRT.


It won't get very far past it. The commands in the for loop will fail
because of the blank value of $p.

I don't know what shells are available in Solaris 10, but at least most
versions of bash are happy to execute a

for p in    ;

loop zero times.

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