problems running certain utilities via makefile (Win32)

[Gorlash]

I have been using makefiles for many years, but have historically had
problems running certain win32 executables via it, though the same command
works fine in a batch file.  One of my more common problem applications is
lint-nt.exe, from PcLint.  Here is a typical command:

c:\lint9\lint-nt +v -width(160,4) $(LiFLAGS) +fcp -ic:\lint9 mingw.lnt
-os(_lint.tmp) lintdefs.cpp $(CPPSRC)

If I try to run this explicitly, it fails with:

c:\lint9\lint-nt +v -width(160,4)  +fcp -ic:\lint9 mingw.lnt -os(_lint.tmp)
lintdefs.cpp json_handler.cpp common_funcs.cpp nsort.cpp
/bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('
/bin/sh: -c: line 0: `c:\lint9\lint-nt +v -width(160,4)  +fcp -ic:\lint9
mingw.lnt -os(_lint.tmp) lintdefs.cpp json_handler.cpp common_funcs.cpp
nsort.cpp '
Makefile:42: recipe for target 'lintraw' failed
make: *** [lintraw] Error 258

(note that the macros expanded properly, and that the resulting command
works fine from cmd.exe)

In the past, I used Cygwin make, and with that program I could instead spawn
the command in cmd.exe using:
        cmd /c "c:\lint9\lint-nt +v -width(160,4) $(LiFLAGS) +fcp -ic:\lint9
mingw.lnt -os(_lint.tmp) lintdefs.cpp $(CPPSRC)"

and that worked fine.  Recently, though, I've switched to using GnuWin32,
but the preceding command fails with:
C:\SourceCode\json Yes, Master?? > make lint
cmd /c "c:\lint9\lint-nt +v -width(160,4)  +fcp -ic:\lint9 mingw.lnt
-os(_lint.tmp) lintdefs.cpp json_handler.cpp common_funcs.cpp nsort.cpp "
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

and then it leaves me sitting in this sub-shell, without doing anything.


So, at this point, I can't find any way to run this command from a
makefile!!  I even downloaded Make V4.1 and build using MinGW, but that
didn't help any.

Is there some technique to solve this problem, whatever it is??




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