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On 24/07/2012 17:50, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> The Cygwin version of make would not display "c:" anything.  That's not
> a Cygwin path specification and it shouldn't even be possible for a
> Cygwin program to see the Windows PATH environment variable.  You must
> be running a non-cygwin make.  Spaces in the PATH are acceptable on both
> Linux and Cygwin and Windows.
>
> That said, however, make does not deal well with spaces in file
> specifications.  If something is actually parsing a PATH environment
> variable then it could cause problems.
>
> cgf
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It was actually that make wasn't installed, it works now. I was 
expecting the usual "bash: make: command not found"

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