make and nmake

[Warren Young]

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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