Proposed patch: Unroll installation loops

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> lilypond uses the $(foreach) facility of gnumake in several places in  
> its installation. While I'm sure this is a little bit more efficient,  
> it creates problems on MacOS, where due to the fink build setup, paths  
> are often about 30 characters longer: Since foreach creates a single  
> shell line for the whole installation command, the resulting line  
> sometimes exceeded the maximum permissible argument size.
> 
> I therefore had to rewrite the $(foreach) statements in terms of  
> regular shell "for" loops. This code has been in use in MacOS X  
> lilypond for a few months.

Hi -

your mailer has munched the patch. Can you attach it?

thanks!

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