Microsoft KB Archive/62332

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FIX: Can't Use Multiple Description Blocks w/ NMAKE 1.1

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Q62332

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft NMAKE Utility for MS-DOS, version 1.1

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SYMPTOMS
Page 639 of &quot;Microsoft BASIC 7.0: Programmer's Guide&quot; explains how you can use NMAKE to specify more than one description block for the same target.

The example given on this page is the proper way to specify more than one description block; however, this feature does not function correctly in NMAKE version 1.1. It does function correctly in NMAKE version 1.11.

NMAKE version 1.1 shipped with the Professional Development System (PDS) Basic version 7.0. NMAKE version 1.11 shipped with Microsoft C Professional Development System (PDS) version 6.0.

STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in NMAKE version 1.1. This problem was corrected in version 1.11.

MORE INFORMATION
The following example specifies more than one description block for the same target by using two colons as the separator instead of one. The following example is taken from Page 639 of &quot;Microsoft BASIC 7.0: Programmer's Guide&quot;:

     TARGET.LIB :: A.ASM B.ASM C.ASM MASM A.ASM B.ASM C.ASM; LIB TARGET -+A.OBJ -+B.OBJ -+C.OBJ;< TARGET.LIB :: D.BAS E.BAS BC D.BAS; BC E.BAS; LINK D.OBJ E.OBJ; LIB TARGET -+D.OBJ -+E.OBJ; Given the two description blocks above, NMAKE should update the library named TARGET.LIB. In the first description block, if any of the assembly language files have changed more recently than the library, the assembly files will be assembled and the library will be updated with the new .OBJs. In the second description block, the BASIC files that have changed should be compiled and the library should also be updated with the new OBJs.

When using NMAKE version 1.1, the commands in the first description block are executed correctly; however, the commands in the second description block are never executed.

Additional query words: 1.10 buglist1.10 fixlist1.11

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Technology : kbVCsearch kbAudDeveloper kbNMAKESearch kbNMAKE110DOS