On Sat, 2011-10-22 at 12:41 -0500, KenSharp wrote: > Cygwin creates a home directory based on the user name of the Windows > user (/home/Ken\ Sharp for example). > > Unfortunately the space screws up the creation of Makefile.in after > running a configure - indeed it is not created at all, but there is no > error from configure. Creating a new directory with no spaces in the > path seems to solve this (/home/ken). > That sounds like a problem in configure to me: IIRC configure is a shell script and this is a common problem in shell scripts that are not explicitly written to handle names with spaces in them. Check the cygwin bugs register and/or ask them about it: nobody else is likely to know whether they use a standard 'configure' shell script or if its one of their own. Martin
