Re: bin/43821: make: longstanding bug with loop variables

[Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/43821; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>
Cc: gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/43821: make: longstanding bug with loop variables
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:29:44 +0300

 Sorry. I sent this email to this list by mistake :-/
 Now I added David to "To".
 
 >  I don't try to push people to fix this issue.
 >  But I whould like to see this behaviour documented in one way or another.
 >  How about something like?
 >  
 >  .SS BUGS
 >  Due to ... loop variable cannot be used inside the loop in condition
 >  statements. Workaround is...
 >  
 >  As you understand what it's happening here maybe you can update man page?
 
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 Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.