Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 10:36:45 -0500 From: Mark Beckwith To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: make and nmake Message-ID: <20050928153645.GB16935@john.intrig.com> References: <20050928144623.GA16935@john.intrig.com> <433AB208.9000208@etr-usa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <433AB208.9000208@etr-usa.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 09:08:56AM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > 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. Well, if I just run nmake, I get an nmake error: NMAKE : fatal error U1065: invalid option '-' The real problem here is that nmake is just so gimpy. I don't want to waste this list's time (or my time for that matter) anymore. I'll check the GNU make list. I was just hoping there was some env variable I could set or something simple. Thanks, Mark -- Mark Beckwith, Intrig (http://www.intrig.com) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/