Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
Replacing the $(...) with back ticks fixes the parse problem for me, though I'm
not sure whether it's the odd looking dangling `|| exit 1` or the POSIX command
substitution paren matching interacting badly with nested `cd $(srcdir)`?
Neither sounds plausible, so I'm afraid it's another bug
in your 'make' implementation or something like that.
I'd rathar understand what the real bug is before
slapping on a patch like that.
What happens if you put that text:
if test -d ./.git \
&& git --version >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
diff=$(cd . && git submodule -q foreach \
git diff-index --name-only HEAD) \
|| exit 1; \
case $diff in '') ;; \
*) echo 'maint.mk: submodule files are locally modified:'; \
echo "$diff"; exit 1;; esac; \
else \
: ; \
fi
into a file "FOO" and then type "bash -x ./FOO"? That doesn't give
me a syntax error; does it give you one? If so, what? And if not,
then why not, since that's what 'make' says it's running?
