Microsoft KB Archive/51723

= Error U1073 When &quot;.&quot; Used for Path in Inference Rule =

Article ID: 51723

Article Last Modified on 10/23/2003

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This article was previously published under Q51723



NMAKE does not accept a dot (.) to identify the current directory in inference rule paths. When specifying paths for each of the extensions, using the following form

{frompath}.fromextension{topath}.toextension

and using {.} to indicate the current directory for the &quot;topath&quot;, causes the following error:

NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't know how to make 'filename.ext'

To work around this, the current directory for topath must be specified with {}. However, both notations are acceptable when specifying the &quot;frompath&quot;.

Later versions of NMAKE accept the dot in the topath.

Additional query words: kbinf 1.20 1.30

Keywords: kb16bitonly KB51723

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