Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Undefined macros in Makefile.nmake files

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From: "Graham Bloice" <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 13:36:19 +0100
> Mike Frisch wrote:
> >
> > The Makefile.nmake in the root of the source tree contains references to
> > $O and $S macros in the .c inference rule.  These are not defined
> > anywhere causing the vc60.pdb file to be written to the root of the
> > build drive.
> >
> > Seeing as they seemingly have no purpose, should I simply remove the
> > references to these macros?  (The other fix is to define O=. and S=.)
> >
>
> I really don't know. I believe Graham Bloice put those in
> for some help with dependencies. How well does the build run
> without these lines?
>

I think that I put them in so that the compiler was invoked once per set of
sources, rather than once per file. MSDN nmake docs call it batch mode.

I haven't checked where the vc60.pdb file went.

Graham