I think this may be my config of the cygwin. In the top level makefile there is a line calling a shell script to compile the elc's. The calling of this script was failing. If I called it with /bin/sh instead of sh all was fine I will look further into why it was failing --- Ian -----Original Message----- From: SL Baur [mailto:steve＠xemacs.org] Sent: Thursday, April 30, 1998 11:44 AM To: xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org Subject: Re: FW: [Failure] 21.0 "Repartida-pre2" XEmacs Lucid (beta38) on i38 6-pc-cygwin32 Ian MacKinnon <IMacKinnon(a)telia.co.uk&gt; writes: > Aha! If I put /bin in front of the sh in the makefile all is well Eh?