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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