What’s the point of having makefiles if they don’t work?

Borland Developer Studio (formerly known as Delphi) builds nice little project group files, that look exactly like makefiles.

The problem is that if the projects included in the makefiles are in subfolders, the makefile doesn’t recurse into these directories, but runs dcc32 from the current folder. And then the compiler can’t find any files.

Why is that?