On (20 Sep 97) Paul Wankadia wrote to Jerry Coffin...
 JC> Don't get me wrong: Watcom's compiler for DOS is perfectly good, but
 JC> then so is Borland's.  If you expect a DOS based IDE when you buy
 JC> Watcom, you're likely to be dissappointed.
 PW> I wonder if anyone's writing "makefiles for Dummies".
They don't put insulting epithets in their titles, but if memory serves,
O'reilly and Associates has quite a nice book on make.
The major problem with writing about make is that make isn't a single
program, and there's no standard that gets followed either.  While a lot
of simple makefiles work fine with quite a few versions of make, as soon
as you use any advanced features of one particular make, your files
become incompatible with quite a few other versions.
Therefore, while O'reilly's book is good, don't be too surprised if some
things it includes don't work with your particular version of make.  If
you use Borland's make, don't be surprised if practically nothing works:
while it's quite competent in general, it's missing nearly any and all
features that could be considered at all advanced.  I haven't used
Watcom's version of make in a LONG time and have little or no
reccollection of what features it supported even then, so I've no idea
what it's like now.
    Later,
    Jerry.
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