Problem with make

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <715 at bbking.KSP.Unisys.COM> bcarb at KSP.Unisys.COM (Brian Carb) writes:
>test:
>	for i in 1 2 3 4; do echo "hello"; done
>This always generates an error such as
>Syntax error:  do:  command not found

There's nothing wrong with that Makefile.
(I.e. I tried it and it worked fine for me.)
Perhaps you have the SHELL variable set to a bogus shell?
(Check both the Makefile and the environment.)