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). Look inside configure.log for the place which fails. Find it in configure or even better in configure.ac and put double quotes around the path variable(s). Then send a patch in.