Jim,
The compiler included in the final release (which you will receive shortly)
does not have this problem. The ccommon macro is used in the cflags macro.
This leads me to believe that this macro was not intended to be used in your
makefiles, but I could be wrong 🙂
Regarding the second question, this works for me:
# makefile
!include <ntwin32.mak>
all: file.exe
.c.obj:
$(cc) $(cflags) $*.c
file1.obj: file1.c
file2.obj: file2.c
file3.obj: file3.c
file.exe: file1.obj file2.obj file3.obj
<link command>