Fix bindist creation

We were running into problems like:
    for f in  LICENSE configure config.sub config.guess [...]
    make[2]: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long
This patch moves the loop into make, rather than the shell.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/rules/bindist.mk b/rules/bindist.mk
index 476202316d..56192a595d 100644
--- a/rules/bindist.mk
+++ b/rules/bindist.mk
@@ -23,6 +23,14 @@ define bindist
 bindist: bindist_$1
 
 bindist_$1:
-	for f in $2; do echo $(BIN_DIST_NAME)/$$$$f >> $(BIN_DIST_LIST); done
+$(foreach i,$2,$(call bindist_item,$i))
+endef
+
+define bindist_item
+
+# $1 = the line
+# The formatting of this definition (e.g. the blank line above) is
+# important, in order to get make to generate the right makefile code.
+	for f in $(BIN_DIST_NAME)/$1; do echo $$$$f >> $(BIN_DIST_LIST); done
 endef