Stepan Kasal wrote: > is it true that > > a= ; for f in $a; do ... done > > is not interpreted correctly by some shells? There was some discussion on a related problem, on one of the MinGW fora, a couple of months back. In a *Makefile* LIST = some-target: for i in ${LIST}; \ do \ some commands; \ done doesn't work; a possible workaround is to say for i in ""${LIST}; But, that's a subtly different problem -- your example works fine for me in bash, and in SunOS 5.5 sh. Regards, Keith. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf