I was compiling the cygwin DLL from the latest src package 1.7.9-1 following FAQ 6.18 as always. After a lot of successful activity in the 'make' step, I see: [...] ar cru libautomode.a automode.o ar cru libbinmode.a binmode.o ar cru libtextmode.a textmode.o ar cru libtextreadmode.a textreadmode.o perl -p -e 'BEGIN{binmode(STDIN); binmode(STDOUT);}; s/cygwin1/cygwin0/g' < libc ygwin.a > libcygwin0.a make[3]: Leaving directory `/oss/build/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/cygwin' make[3]: Entering directory `/oss/build/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/mingw' /oss/src/winsup/utils/mingw gcc -c -D__CRTDLL__ -U__MSVCRT__ -pipe -g -O2 -march =athlon-xp -I/oss/src/winsup/mingw/include -I/oss/src/winsup/mingw/../include -n ostdinc -iwithprefixbefore include -I /oss/src/winsup/mingw/../w32api/include /o ss/src/winsup/mingw/crt1.c -o crt1.o /oss/src/winsup/utils/mingw: 38: Syntax error: "(" unexpected make[3]: *** [crt1.o] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/oss/build/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/mingw' make[2]: *** [mingw] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/oss/build/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup' make[1]: *** [all-target-winsup] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/oss/build' make: *** [all] Error 2
Line 38 of /oss/src/winsup/utils/mingw has: newargs=() As a workaround I changed that script's shebang line to #!/bin/bash from the existing #!/bin/sh and re-ran make. It ran to completion. I'm not sure what the real fix should be. ..mark -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple