Re^2: [OT] Makefiles - nmake syntax v dmake syntax

By the way, I fixed the file name in the last one.

Yeah ... I was wunderin' how come glversion.o never got removed :-)

Your solution works fine, btw - thanks. At some stage (in a rare moment of enlightened inspiration) I also got around to trying:

clean:
    -if exist "glversion.txt" del "glversion.txt"
    -if exist "glversion.exe" del "glversion.exe"
    -if exist "glversion.o"   del "glversion.o"
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and that works, too. I was surprised that those double quotes would have such a marked effect on the way that the commands are parsed.

Reading through the rest of the thread I'm struck with the notion that TMTOWTDI .... which would be sooooo typical of this place :-)

Thanks guys.

Cheers,
Rob

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Re^3: [OT] Makefiles - nmake syntax v dmake syntax by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 16, 2008 at 19:59 UTC
I was surprised that those double quotes would have such a marked effect on the way that the commands are parsed. `system` does the same thing in Perl. The presence of shell meta characters forces the invocation of the shell.	[reply] [d/l]