The patch below from Christopher Faylor fixes this error.
I also had to create a dummy install-sh, config.sub and config.guess before I could successfully run configure. Thanks for your help Chris. Index: main.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/cvsfiles/devo/make/main.c,v retrieving revision 1.47 diff -u -p -r1.47 main.c --- main.c 2001/06/26 19:12:04 1.47 +++ main.c 2001/11/16 03:20:03 @@ -870,11 +870,10 @@ int main (int argc, char ** argv) char *make_mode_env; /* Read the environment variable MAKE_MODE */ - /* If it's "UNIX", set unixy_shell to 1. If it's "WIN32" or - anything else, stay with the default of 0. */ + /* If it's not "UNIX", set unixy_shell to 0. */ make_mode_env = getenv ("MAKE_MODE"); - if (make_mode_env && strcaseequ (make_mode_env, "UNIX")) - unixy_shell = 1; + if (make_mode_env && !strcaseequ (make_mode_env, "UNIX")) + unixy_shell = 0; } #endif /* __CYGWIN__ */ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/