On Fri, 02 Sep 2005, Roland Illig wrote:
> >	TOOLS_PLATFORM_PAIRS+= cat /bin/cat
> >	TOOLS_PLATFORM_PAIRS+= chgrp /usr/bin/chgrp
> >	TOOLS_PLATFORM_PAIRS+= chmod /bin/chmod
> >	# etc...
> >	.for i j in ${TOOLS_PLATFORM_PAIRS}
> >	TOOLS_PLATFORM.${i} ?= ${j}
> >	.READONLY: ${i}
> >	.endfor
> 
> Looks good at first sight, but not at second. You cannot have 
> white-space in the tool names. Not even with quoting them.

That's a bug in make(1).  The code that handles modifiers (as in
${FOO:C/old/new/}) splits variables into words in a way that handles
quoting.  The code that handles .for loops splits variables into words
in a way that does not handle quoting.

The "Make a list with the remaining words" code starting near line 222
of src/usr.bin.make/for.c needs to be changed to call brk_string()
instead of using its own ad-hoc parser.

--apb (Alan Barrett)