Building make under Windows with CygWin

[John Ousterhout]

I've been trying to build GNU make 3.79.1-3 from sources in the CygWin
environment, but I can't get the configure script to complete successfully.
Here's more detail:

- I'm running under Windows 2000; I have the default binary installation
  of CygWin, plus the sources for make 3.79.1-3, downloaded via CygWin's
  setup.exe.

- I assumed the standard mechanism for building would work, namely type
  "./configure" followed by "make".

- However, when I typed "./configure", here's what I got:
  $ ./configure
  creating cache ./config.cache
  configure: error: can not find install-sh or install.sh in . ./.. ./../..

- Just to see what would happen next, I created a file "install-sh"
  (copied it from Tcl's UNIX installation; probably wouldn't actually work,
  but I thought it might at least get me through the configure step).

- With that file present, configure got farther but still didn't finish:
  $ !!
  ./configure
  loading cache ./config.cache
  checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
  checking whether build environment is sane... yes
  checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
  checking for working aclocal... found
  checking for working autoconf... found
  checking for working automake... found
  checking for working autoheader... found
  checking for working makeinfo... found
  configure: error: can not run ./config.sub

  Sure enough, there is no file "config.sub"

Any suggestions for how to make this work?  I have been able to build
other CygWin packages successfully, so I'm guessing that the issue is
with make (or with me) not with CygWin.  Thanks for any help you can
provide.

-John-


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