Windows make issues

[Jim]

I'm using a version of make 3.80 compiled for windows using visual studio.

There are some issues.....

a> some windows compilers like to have \'s in path names.  If I'm not 
running sh.exe - make itself seems to strip the \'s before issuing the 
command... when it prints the command it's about to do, that looks 
correct, and I can copy and paste what I see, and it works, however, if 
I dump the actual command line generated the \'s in the path names are 
all removed.

b> There needs to be a standard way to tell make to launch command XYZ 
in directory PDQ, cd XYZ;PDQ fails, since windows interpretors take the 
command line as an argument to cd.  Of course cd XYZ followed by command 
PDQ on a sperate line also fails, since each command is atomic.  Oh 
Perhaps I got around that using define... nope can't do it that way - 
guess I just decided to not do things that way - but again I'm coming up 
with a need/desire to change to set the current working directory before 
running a command so it's files are generated in the right place....

Jim