Help on make from cygwin on USB drive

[John Mamer]

Hi,
   I've been trying to assemble a set of my favorite unix-for-pc tools 
on a usb keyring drive. Of course, cygwin is the centerpiece of my 
effort.  I've read the posts by Fergus and others on installing cygwin 
on a cdrom.  I've pretty much got things working.  I elected to forgo 
the X server in favor of tools that use the win32 desktop directly.  So 
far, I have cygwin base, gcc, rxvt, octave, tetex, gnuplot, Active State 
Perl+ Perl/Tk, emacs, Ghostscript, and Ghostview all playing nicely 
togther on a usb flash drive.  For cygwin, I have only to make the right 
mount points and it seems to work (of course being very careful not to 
do this on a computer that already has cygwin installed).

My problem is gnu make.  I can compile a program using gcc directly, but 
when I try to compile the same program using make, I get errors such as 
"undefined reference to fprintf" which seems to indicate that gcc cannot
see the header files/libraries when it is invoked by make, but it can 
when invoked by itself.  My wild guess is that there is an environment 
variable that make looks at that is being set improperly or another 
registry key that I am unaware of???

If this has been covered in the mailing lists, I apologize in advance 
and encourage you to tell me where to go (in the mailing list archive 
that is).  Any other hints would be appreciated.

thank you
j