Problem with make

[Wm E Davidsen Jr]

In article <715 at bbking.KSP.Unisys.COM>, bcarb at KSP.Unisys.COM (Brian Carb) writes:
|  I'm having a problem using a 'for' statement with 'make'.  Consider
|  the following trivial makefile:
|  
|  test:
|  	for i in 1 2 3 4; do echo "hello"; done

  I tried this on three SysV machines and it worked on all of them. You
are doing something other than what you think you are, because this
flies on Xenix, Stellar, and Unicos.
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