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Subject:	empty directory globbing in bash/sh for loops
Date:	Thu, 2 Mar 2006 13:10:20 -0000
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In the Cygwin bash the following statement

for file in ./SOME_EMPTY_DIR/* ; do do_it_on $file ; done

executes the following once because of how globbing is done.

do_it_on ./SOME_EMPTY_DIR/*

Unfortunately the gcc 4.0.2 makefiles do use this on possibly empty
directories and break.

Does anybody know how to solve this, please?

BIG THANX

PS
I realize it's a hot topic, but I really couldn't find a solution anywhere.
I was actually surprises to see the gcc breaking on something like this
because I've built cross-gcc 4.0.2 under mingw/msys before without any
problems at all.

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