Compiling the current CVS of XFree86 with Cygwin

[John Fortin]

> It fails on the top level Makefiles complaining at line 70 of
> xc/programs/Makefile, xc/doc/Makefile, etc. and then refuses to go on
> obviously.
>
> The error message is
> Makefile:70: *** missing separator. Stop.
>
> Now, line 70 says...
>
> !<symlink>../.././programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/xf86Version.h
>
> I guess this is something from cygwin to handle symbolic links.
>
> I've trolled the FAQ and the list archives to no avail, so has anyone else
seen
> this, a fix maybe ?
>

I've had this happen when I use text mounts, or a windows (not cygwin)
version of CVS.

Check your mounts and CVS version.

John