Re: Win32 Makefile template patch.
| From: | (Wietse Venema) | Date: | Fri, 09 May 2008 11:30:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Win32 Makefile template patch. | ||
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Richard Quadling:
> Effectively nmake is not respecting the shell to run internal commands.
>
> As you can see (hopefully), rmdir is a SHELL command, even if an
> executable exists with the same name and that executable is in the
> path.
>
> The issue is that nmake doesn't respect the shell command until after
> it has done the search via the path.
If you want nmake to use command.exe's built-in command, then tell
nmake to do so:
command/c rmdir...
instead of
rmdir...
rd...
Making it explicit with command/c is more robust than trying to
avoid PATH: collisions.
Wietse