Hi...

I've been pulling my hair trying to build wget 1.7 on cygwin...

This is the first time I attempt to compile ANYTHING on cygwin, so maybe
perhaps someone will give me some clues...

First, I fire Cygwin Bash shell.

Second,  I "gzip -d wget17.tar.gz"

Third, I "tar xvf wget17.tar"

So far, so good.

But then why does "make" or "make install" fail? Why does cygwin refuse
to execute "install-sh".

Undisclosed@WINBOX d:/work/wget-1.7
$ make
Makefile:30: *** missing separator (did you mean TAB instead of 8
spaces?).  Sto
p.

I also tried to run "configure.bat" but it tells me to run NMAKE. I try
to run NMAKE and find out it seems I don't have it!. (And I did a FULL
Cygwin install that took several hours fetching stuff with my DSL link!,
I thought I'd have everything needed to build anything I want, by
now...).

I'm sure someone has "been there", pulling your hair for the first time,
like me.

Am I supposed to use a different (better?) environment than cygwin ? I
thought that building the latest wget with cygwin would be a "fire and
forget" operation... :-/

Regards
Fernando

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