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Date:	Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:08:56 -0600
From:	Warren Young <warren AT etr-usa DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: make and nmake
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Mark Beckwith wrote:
> 
> dll: NMakefile
>     $(shell nmake /f NMakefile)

Why do you need to use $(shell)?  You can call an external program 
directly from within a build rule.  $(shell) is for instances where you 
need to capture the output of an external program into a variable, or 
something like that.

This is really a topic for the GNU make mailing list.

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