Re: Linux Makefile uses 'ls', causes problems with color-ls (PATCH)

Arvind Sankar (arvinds@mit.edu)
Wed, 31 Mar 1999 09:57:14 -0500


On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 08:33:29AM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Trevor Johnson wrote:
>
> > > - ls *.o > $$MODLIB/.allmods; \
> > > + rm -f $$MODLIB/.allmods; \
> > > + for x in *.o; do echo $$x>>$$MODLIB/.allmods; done; \
> >
> > ...or just:
> >
> > echo *.o >$$MODLIB/.allmods; \
>
> Well I tried that but there is a problem if there are no '.o' files
> in the directory (you get *.o echoed).

the for loop will do the same. The ls will work... (except for printing
a funky error message)

-- arvind

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