Re: How to get make to work under Cygwin bash shell

From: Mac (foo_at_bar.net)
Date: 02/11/04 

Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 20:07:13 -0800

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 14:15:02 +0000, brianj wrote:

> I have an older version of Cygwin (B20) under which "make" works fine.
> I recently installed the latest version of Cygwin. When I type
> "make" at the command prompt, I get the message:
>
> bash: make: command not found
>
> I have a Makefile in the local directory and ran a ./configure script
> which ran successfully.
>
> So how do I configure my bash shell to recognize the make command ?
> When I look at my environment variables, the only variable related to
> make is:
>
> MAKE_MODE=unix
>
> which I'm sure doesn't have any bearing on this.
>
> I'm sure the answer is something simple. It's been a while since I
> used makefiles.
>
> Can anyone help me ?

This question is off-topic, but it sure sounds like you didn't install
make. I'm sure cygwin has a mailing list or something. You could try
asking for help there.

regards,
Mac

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