> Sounds like you didn't run autoreconf (which would have been done > automatically via the supported mechanism).
Right. I applied it the traditional way. > setup.exe to download the sources and several prerequisite tools (cygport, > autoconf, ...), then using 'cygport coreutils-8.5-1 prep make'. Other ways > work, but I won't support them on this list. See also As a want to come a hybrid of Cygwin and Gentoos Emerge installer, I rather have to figure out one of those hidden ways. If I can't find it, I have to fall back from Cygwin to Interix. But that would cut half of my target group. > /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/coreutils.README. Yes, it's time to dig a little deeper into the Cygwin scripts. It has to be scriptable in the end. Then I can get it into Emerge. A graphical setup.exe is the wrong way for my approach. However there are scripts below. Al -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple