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From: edwill@earth.lerc.nasa.gov (Glenn L. Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Microsoft Nmake Problem
Message-ID: <1991Jan3.220724.17722@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Date: 3 Jan 91 22:07:24 GMT
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In article <1990Dec28.143140.16096@balr.com>, andy@balr.com (Andrew Little) writes...
>I am having a problem with the $? macro in Microsoft's Nmake version
>1.11.  Consider the following fragment (directly from the help
>examples):
> 
>trig.lib : sin.obj cos.obj arctan.obj
>        !lib trig.lib -+$?;
> 
>This is supposed to update trig.lib with an object file if one of
>the objects (or source) is newer than trig.lib by running lib once
>for each changed object.  If trig.lib is newest, nothing happens
>(correct).  But if a single object is newer, then lib is run THREE
>times, and adds each object instead of running once and adding only
>the new object.  This is clearly not what is intended (by me, or by
>Microsoft according to the docs).
> 
>Am I missing something here?  Or is there a problem with this
>version of nmake?  Is there a newer version that handles this
>correctly?
> 
>All comments welcome.
> 
>Andy Little
>andy@balr.com
> 
>"That's what dads do - yell, and barbeque" - The Golden Girls

I haven't checked the versions , but Microsoft has a low-cost
maintenance update to C6.0.