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Re: [PATCH] Add semicolon to curly brace group in main Makefile

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 27, 2009, 06:21 UTC
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Mark Drago <markdrago@gmail.com> writes:
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> This semicolon is technically required by bash and indeed caused a syntax error
> on a system that I came across running, an admittedly very old, bash-2.04.0.
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Command-Grouping
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Drago <markdrago@gmail.com>

Thanks; it is not specific to bash. At the end of compound_list before the Rbrace at the end of brace_group, a separator is required.

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