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From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi@ipass.net>
To: "Tirumala R Bokka" <tirumala_rao@hotmail.com>,
        <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: RE: problems in running nmake from GNU make 
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 11:52:17 -0400
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> Hi,
> 
> I'm facing a problem while I'm trying to run NMAKE from a GNU Makefile
> to build a subsystem. The makefile is recursively invoking nmake 
> to build a 
> subdirectory. I'm invoking nmake as follows:
>    cd dir1 && nmake -f template.mak
> Make invokes NMAKE, but NMAKE gives an error saying,
>    NMAKE : fatal error U1065: invalid option '-'
> 
> Running the same line from shell command line works fine.
> 
> Does GNU Make know about nmake?

NO

> or
> Is NMAKE trying to be smarter than it is?

contorary!!!

> 
> any ideas?

use gnu make

> 
> - Tirumal
> 
> PS: I would like everything to be in the GNU Makefile format but,
>     for the sake of curiosity I'd like to know what's wrong
> 
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