-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 3/2/2006 6:10 AM: > In the Cygwin bash the following statement > > for file in ./SOME_EMPTY_DIR/* ; do do_it_on $file ; done > > executes the following once because of how globbing is done. > > do_it_on ./SOME_EMPTY_DIR/*
Correct - POSIX requires that. However, bash also has the 'shopt -s nullglob' which may help in your situation. > > Unfortunately the gcc 4.0.2 makefiles do use this on possibly empty > directories and break. > > Does anybody know how to solve this, please? If it hurts, don't do it. Report the bug to the gcc folks, if they aren't being robust enough to protect against an empty directory. > Unless stated above to be non-confidential, this E-mail and any > attachments are private and confidential and are for the addressee > only and may not be used, copied or disclosed save to the addressee. Oops - not anymore. Please don't send email to publicly archived mailing lists with unenforceable legalese trash at the bottom (open up a free web-based account, if necessary). - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] volunteer cygwin bash maintainer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEBvrT84KuGfSFAYARAp9CAKDZBFlVLVzsGZG2Kw4njzl0GWwHrgCcCHWx eG/Kto3FzNxk3+6LuHJRvxI= =M2iD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
