> does not cause any ill side-effects, either (just as yet, at least). Maybe I spoke too soon, or maybe it's not at all related, but my build finally failed like this:
... make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/lavr/cygwin-snapshot-20130925-1/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/lsaauth' make[3]: Entering directory `/home/lavr/cygwin-snapshot-20130925-1/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/doc' builddir=`pwd` \ && cd ../../.././winsup/doc \ && ../../.././winsup/doc/xidepend ../../.././winsup/doc/cygwin-ug-net.xml > "${builddir}/Makefile.dep" /bin/sh: line 2: ../../.././winsup/doc/xidepend: No such file or directory make[3]: *** No rule to make target `Makefile.dep', needed by `all'. Stop. make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/lavr/cygwin-snapshot-20130925-1/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/doc' Makefile:82: recipe for target `doc' failed make[2]: *** [doc] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/lavr/cygwin-snapshot-20130925-1/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup' Makefile:8381: recipe for target `all-target-winsup' failed make[1]: *** [all-target-winsup] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/lavr/cygwin-snapshot-20130925-1' Makefile:833: recipe for target `all' failed make: *** [all] Error 2 The blamed binary is indeed there, and it looks like it's relative nested location (../../.././winsup/doc/xidepend) has somehow been miscalculated. ~/cygwin-snapshot-20130925-1 $ ls -l winsup/doc/xidepend -rwxr-xr-x 1 lavr Domain Users 874 Jun 4 07:50 winsup/doc/xidepend ~/cygwin-snapshot-20130925-1 $ file winsup/doc/xidepend What am I missing / doing wrong here? TIA, Anton Lavrentiev Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI -- 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