MSC 5.1 make

[Patrick M. Ryan]

     Is it just my imagination or is the version of Make which comes
with MSC 5.1 a pitiful imitation of the real Unix Make?  There are some
pretty fundamental things it doesn't seem to do, such as assuming
'makefile' as the default makefile name.  The built-in macros are
few and far between.  It insists on making the objects in the order
in which they appear in the file instead of letting the user specify
an object to be made and starting the dependency checking from there.
     I have seem PD implementations of Make on PCs which work exactly the
same as the Unix make.  Why did Microsoft limit their version so much?
     I have heard that MSC 6.0 is due out sometime in the near future.
Has anyone heard of any plans to rectify this situation?

Thanks

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