problems in running nmake from GNU make

[Tirumala R Bokka]

I'm sure there are no dobule hyphens that I can see in the file.
This must be somehow happening behind the scenes.

- Tirumal

>From: "Ajit George" <gajit@kurianinc.com>
>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 02:57:44 -0500
>
>Since invoking 'nmake -' gets the same results, it looks like your makefile
>passes a double dash to nmake somewhere along the line.
>
>Ajit
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:	cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com
>[ mailto:cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com ] On Behalf Of Tirumala R Bokka
>Sent:	Saturday, October 16, 1999 4:28 AM
>To:	cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
>Subject:	problems in running nmake from GNU make
>
>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?
>or
>Is NMAKE trying to be smarter than it is?
>
>any ideas?
>
>- 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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