make and nmake
Warren Young
warren@etr-usa.com
Wed Sep 28 15:36:00 GMT 2005
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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