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> "make clean" fails when /bin/sh is bash because $(SUBDIRS) is empty in
> Doc and Etc and maybe elsewhere.  Bash gets a syntax error at
> 
> 	for subdir in ; do
> 
> even though that is prefixed with "if test -n '$(SUBDIRS)'" because it
> apparently wants to parse the entire line before executing any of it.

Yes, this is how sh is supposed to work.  A real, honest-to-god Bourne
shell (SunOS 4.1.4) does not accept an empty list after `in' either.

odin(3)$ sh
${HOST}($SHLVL)\$ for x in ; do echo z ; done
syntax error: `;' unexpected
${HOST}($SHLVL)\$ if test -n ''
> then
> for x in ; do echo z ; done
syntax error: `;' unexpected


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Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University	Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu