On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Martin Gagnon <[email protected]> wrote:

> I don't know about nmake syntax, but other reference to B in Makefile.msc
> use brackets.
>     e.g: $(B) instead of just $B
>

Good point - i was copy/pasting from an MSC user ;).


> I know that () are needed in GNU and BSD Makefiles, but I don't know about
> nmake..
>

Standard(ish) makes allow vars to be expanded without () or {} if they are
a single character:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/make.html

No idea about nmake, but looking at Makefile.msc, i see $O and $B in other
places, so i'll leave it for now unless someone reports it broken.

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----- stephan beal
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