New Cygwin: "commands commence before first target"

[Earnie Boyd]

--- Bob Kline <bkline@rksystems.com> wrote:
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> 
>  2. you used a different method for building (I followed the
>     instructions in README.W32)
> 
-8<-

Well, that would be the problem.  Do you have a "Cygwin" program as the result?
 You should follow the instructions for build on UNIX on for VC++ or Borland.

All you should need to do is

tar -zxvf mypkg-foo.tar.gz
cd mypkg-foo
mkdir build
cd build
../configure --prefix=/where/you/want/to/install
make
make check
make install

I typically use --prefix=/usr if I'm replacing a supplied utility after I've
made the proper backups.

Anybody interested in the stow package?

Regards,

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