New Cygwin: "commands commence before first target"

[Parker, Ron]

> I would have guessed that doing "setup make" would get the 
> latest version.
> It apparently doesn't.  It only gets version 3.77.  Is 
> version 3.79 kosher
> for installing with cygwin?

It should be safe, but the new version has not been placed in the cygwin
latest directory.  You will need to retrieve it from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/make-3.79.tar.gz and build it yourself.