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Philip W. wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to compile apt on cygwin, but I get errors during the 
> "./configure" stage of the process. The script says that it can't 
> determine my glibc version number or my libstdc++ version number. It 
> also spits out serveral errors that say "[make] *** Error 2". And then 
> fails. I don't know if this is from not having the dependency programs 
> installed, or if this is from incompatibility with cygwin. Any help 
> would be appreciated.


Cygwin doesn't use glibc.  It is it's own C runtime.  You'll need to
look at the configure script test that's failing to see how it's
determining that glibc is not found and alter that check.


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