MAKE for the IBM PC

[Paul Schauble]

I've used Polymake from Polytron for about a year now and been very
pleased with it.  The current version provides most of the features from
Unix make.  So far I haven't missed anything that it doesn t have.  The
next version will allow makefile to get environment variables and be
integrated with PVCS, Ploytron's answer to SCCS.  I have never used the
Phoenix things, but consider their products to be laughably overpriced.

Be careful of PC-Lint from Gimpel.  Their current version believes that
structure members are defined globally, not within the structure.  This
may or may not be a problem depending on the compiler you use.  We use
Lattice, and it's fatal.  Gimpel also sold the C-terp interpreter as
Lattice compatable when it again had global structure member names and a
very different I/O library.  Again, this is unusable for more than toy
programs.  They claim that these are fixed in the current version, but
we have not yet received the update.