Re: Proposed patch: Unroll installation loops

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Matthias Neeracher writes:

> lilypond uses the $(foreach) facility of gnumake in several places in
> its installation. While I'm sure this is a little bit more efficient,
> it creates problems on MacOS, where due to the fink build setup, paths
> are often about 30 characters longer: Since foreach creates a single
> shell line for the whole installation command, the resulting line
> sometimes exceeded the maximum permissible argument size.

What shell are you using?  Have you considered sending a bug report for
the shell?

Jan.

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