The vc8 makefiles still self-identify as vc6. Including CVS tags which
may need to be de-literalized:

--- lib/Makefile.vc8.orig Thu Oct 18 09:39:50 2007
+++ lib/Makefile.vc8 Thu Oct 18 09:40:03 2007
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
  #############################################################
-# $Id: Makefile.vc6,v 1.19 2004/11/14 13:48:15 giva Exp $
+# $Id: Makefile.vc8,v 1.19 2004/11/14 13:48:15 giva Exp $
  #
  # Makefile for building libcurl with MSVC8
  #
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@
  # Usage
  #
  !IF "$(CFGSET)" == "FALSE" && "$(CFG)" != ""
-!MESSAGE Usage: nmake /f makefile.vc6 CFG=<config> <target>
+!MESSAGE Usage: nmake /f makefile.vc8 CFG=<config> <target>
  !MESSAGE where <config> is one of:
  !MESSAGE release - release static library
  !MESSAGE release-ssl - release static library with ssl
--- src/Makefile.vc8.orig Thu Oct 18 09:39:11 2007
+++ src/Makefile.vc8 Thu Oct 18 09:39:38 2007
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
  #############################################################
-# $Id: Makefile.vc6,v 1.19 2004/11/14 13:48:15 giva Exp $
+# $Id: Makefile.vc8,v 1.19 2004/11/14 13:48:15 giva Exp $
  #
  ## Makefile for building curl.exe with MSVC8
-## Use: nmake -f makefile.vc6 [release | debug] [CFG=release-ssl]
+## Use: nmake -f makefile.vc8 [release | debug] [CFG=release-ssl]
  ## (default is release)
-## "nmake -f makefile.vc6 CFG=release-ssl" statically links OpenSSL
+## "nmake -f makefile.vc8 CFG=release-ssl" statically links OpenSSL
  ## into curl.exe producing a standalone SSL-enabled executable.
  ##
  ## Comments to: Troy Engel <tengel_at_sonic.net>