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The thread that starts here might be useful to you:

"Make error 255 bug"

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-09/msg01605.html

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attachment might reveal something that someone on
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problem you're having.  Please see also:

http://cygwin.com/problems.html

-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf
Of Harold Rabbie
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 3:39 PM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: make v3.80: *** [hello] Error 255

This is the dumbest thing.  The makefile couldn't be simpler:

$ cat makefile
hello:  hello.c
        gcc -o hello hello.c

When I run this, I get:

$ make
gcc -o hello hello.c
make: *** [hello] Error 255


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