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Q66572: NMAKE 1.11 Fails to Stop If Command Is Redirected

Article: Q66572
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 1.11
Operating System(s): MS-DOS
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | buglist1.11 fixlist1.12 | mspl13_basic
Last Modified: 9-NOV-1990

If the command line that NMAKE invokes is redirected to another
output file and the command returns a non-zero return code, NMAKE
version 1.11 will not stop the build process.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the DOS version of
NMAKE.EXE. This problem has been corrected in version 1.12.

The following is a sample make file that, with NMAKE version 1.11,
will fail to stop if the compiler returns an error; with version 1.12,
it correctly stops the build process:

all: foo.exe

foo.obj: foo.c
   cl /c /AS foo.c >foo.err

foo.exe: foo.obj
   link /NOI /NOE foo.obj;

The easiest way to workaround this is to redirect from the command
line, for example:

   nmake /f foo.mak >foo.err

The drawback to this is that you can only have one error log.

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