Bugs in the AT&T Toolchest program 'nmake'

[Benson Margulies]

In article <MCGRATH.89May19190412 at paris.Berkeley.EDU> mcgrath at paris.Berkeley.EDU (Roland McGrath) writes:
>In article <11562 at ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> ekrell at hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell) writes:

Some day, Mr. Krell will realize that those of us who don't work for
AT&T are only very marginally interested in the existence of wonderful
software unavailable to us. 

We have been informed that this new version will not only not be
treated as a toolchest upgrade, it won't be available at all.  Perhaps
AT&T is saving it up to be the only make in SysVr4, incompatibly
breaking all existing makefiles? :-)

If a new version is built in the middle of a forest, and no one can
enter the forest to see it, is it really there?

The version of nmake that exists is ridden with bugs. The code quality
is so poor as to make bugfixing an endless exercise in "fix this,
break that." Much of the functionality is specified in the makefile
language, which is completely unstructured, has no conditional
construct other than "comment out the end of the line", and
inadequately documented.

Just sign me, "a very unsatisfied ex-nmake customer."

-- 
Benson I. Margulies