Re: [9fans] p9p mk issue

[Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>]

On Nov 20, 2007, at 4:01 PM, Bakul Shah wrote:

> Don't laugh but I am trying to use identical mkfiles on
> FreeBSD & plan9 for some programs and it seems this is
> impossible.
>
> Consider a simple mkfile like this:
>
> all:
> 	for (i in a b c)
> 		echo $i
>
> 9 mk fails with
> Syntax error: Bad for loop variable
> mk:    ...  : exit status=exit(2)
>
> On rereading the p9p mk man page I discover MKSHELL.  So next
> I add MKSHELL=... line at top of the above mkfile and now it
> works.  Since I want most mkfiles to be portable, I add this
> line in a mkfile included with < but it uses its own copy of
> MKSHELL.  So then I tried
>
> MKSHELL=$PLAN9/bin/rc 9 mk
>
> but that doesn't help either.  Change mkfile to this now
>
> MKSHELL=$PLAN9/bin/rc
> FOO=fum
> all:
> 	for (i in a b c)
> 		echo $i $MKSHELL $FOO
>
> But echo shows "a sh fum" etc. which is rather surprising.
>
> Rather than try this hard to please sh users, would it make
> sense to just use rc?  After all this is *plan9* mk!  To be
> nice mk can pay attention to MKSHELL env. variable but that's
> about it.  Even as a non-unix-hater I'd be perfectly happy
> with that!
>
> -- bakul

/sys/doc/mk.ps: read section 5 on variables. It might help :-)