Q: how to build GNU make from scratch ?

[Brian Ford]

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Heiko Nardmann wrote:

> Changing /bin/sh to /bin/bash at the start of the configure script gets
> me slightly further. I now get the following output:
>
> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... ./configure: fork: Resource
> temporarily unavailable
>
> and here again make seems to hang ...
>
and then,

> After having no luck with my local machine having XP and some patches
> installed locally I switched to our VmWare server and grabbed a copy of the
> pure XP master without any patches. Then I installed current CygWin from
> scratch and what a wonder - it works now.
>
> So now I am not sure whether my CygWin setup is broken (less
> probabilistic) or whether my Win XP setup is broken (more
> probabilistic).
>
My WAG: Are you running Agnitum Outpost on your local machine?  If so,
please see this thread:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-08/msg00521.html

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