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Re: make and nmake

From: Warren Young <warren at etr-usa dot com>
To: Cygwin-L <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:08:56 -0600
Subject: Re: make and nmake
References: <20050928144623.GA16935@john.intrig.com>

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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