Adrian Aichner writes:
 Found the problem, I think.
 
 I have cygwin
 CYGWIN_NT-5.0 D5DC120J 1.1.8(0.34/3/2) 2001-01-31 10:08 i686 unknown
 installed, but didn't run make from cygwin bash.
 
 Instead I have XEmacs configured to run "cmd /c ..." for
 ! runs the command dired-do-shell-command
 
 Now I have run
 make bindist
 from the cygwin shell and the resulting build-1.66-pkg.tar.gz looks
 good.
 
 Please give it a try and report back.
 
 [2 build-1.66-pkg.tar.gz <application/octet-stream>] 
thanks for your troubles adrian
this one worked :)
will install it and play with it and let you know how i go