As you might have figured out, I don't think anyone runs m5 under cygwin... I used to occasionally many years ago, but there are too many little things that got annoying (signal handling issues, gdb not really working properly, etc.). I eventually got to the point where, if I really wanted to run m5 on a windows box, I installed a small linux vm using one of the free vmms (vmware player, virtualbox, etc.). I haven't even done that in a while, but you might want to consider it.
The 'build' directory should get created automatically (and does under linux), so if that's not happening for you that might be another cygwin thing. Steve _______________________________________________ m5-users mailing list m5-users@m5sim.org http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users