[krbdev.mit.edu #5859] Build of windows/identity fails in clean directory

[Kevin Koch via RT]

Your theory that I was using nmake V8 in the failing case and V7 in the 
succeeding case is correct.

It turns out that in the VM with VS2005 installed, the failing case was 
in a W2K environment shell, with nmake V8 from c/Program 
Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/VC/BIN.

The succeeding case was in a XP build environment shell, with nmake V7 
from c/Program Files/Platform SDK Server 2003 R2/Bin.

I will update the build documentation to say what build environment is 
needed.


> Coming back to this ticket.
> 
> Kevin, would you please check the version of nmake.exe that you are
> using in your old and new build environments?
> 
> I would like you to confirm that in your old environment you were
>    using
> nmake.exe (version 7.x) and that in your new environment  you are now
> using the VS 2005 nmake.exe (version 8.x).  I would also like you to
> confirm which Platform SDK you are using because the XP SP2 Platform
>    SDK
> which is the one we are still building with includes the version 7.x
> nmake.exe.
> 
> The version 8.x nmake.exe appears to favor executables over shell
> commands.  As a result, using "mkdir" instead of "md" in the Makefile
>    as
> the command for creating directory trees fails when the Cygwin
>    mkdir.exe
> is present in the PATH.
> 
> The change I would therefore recommend is to modify the
> 
>     MKDIR=mkdir
>     RMDIR=rmdir
> 
> macros in the Makefiles to be
> 
>     MKDIR=md
>     RMDIR=rd
> 
> as this will execute the shell version of the command in all cases.
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