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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 10:36:45 -0500
From: Mark Beckwith <mark AT intrig DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: make and nmake
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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 


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