Seagate GoFlex Home server causes setup.exe build to fail, "cannot run /bin/sh cfgaux/config.sub"

[Matt Seitz]

If you try to build "setup.exe" from source files stored on a Seagate GoFlex Home file server, the "./bootstrap.sh" command will fail with the following error:

"checking for bison... bison -y
configure: error: cannot run /bin/sh cfgaux/config.sub"

The error is because the GoFlex Home file server does not support seeing FAT file flags, such as "system" or "read-only".  As a result, Cygwin does not recognize "cfgaux/config.sub" as a symbolic link, and instead treats it as an ordinary file.  This triggers the error message.

I wanted to document the problem, in case someone else might run into it.

Sincerely,
Matt Seitz