When environment variable POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, the "input -o output" syntax is not supported. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-01/msg00036.html Signed-off-by: Steven Penny <svnpenn@xxxxxxxxx> --- Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index d861bd9..a2a1212 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1816,7 +1816,7 @@ $(SCRIPT_LIB) : % : %.sh GIT-SCRIPT-DEFINES git.res: git.rc GIT-VERSION-FILE $(QUIET_RC)$(RC) \ $(join -DMAJOR= -DMINOR=, $(wordlist 1,2,$(subst -, ,$(subst ., ,$(GIT_VERSION))))) \ - -DGIT_VERSION="\\\"$(GIT_VERSION)\\\"" $< -o $@ + -DGIT_VERSION="\\\"$(GIT_VERSION)\\\"" -i $< -o $@ # This makes sure we depend on the NO_PERL setting itself. $(SCRIPT_PERL_GEN): GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS -- 2.8.3