Q59254: NMAKE 1.01 Does Not Properly Expand Wildcard Arguments

Article: Q59254
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 1.01   | 1.01
Operating System(s): MS-DOS | OS/2
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | | mspl13_basic
Last Modified: 15-MAY-1990

NMAKE version 1.01 doesn't properly expand wildcard command-line arguments.
For example, if we were to have a makefile that looked similar to the
following

a.exe : a.c
    echo cl a.c

b.exe : b.c
    echo cl b.c

And we were to say:

NMAKE *.exe /A

NMAKE wouldn't properly expand "*.exe" to equate to both a.exe and
b.exe; it would merely build only the first target in the list.

NMAKE versions 1.00 and 1.10 do not exhibit this behavior.

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