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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 15:24:00 +0100
From: Jacek Trzmiel <sc0rp AT hot DOT pl>
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Subject: Re: "make" doesn't work!
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> I have been searching the answer for my problem for some while but
> didn't get anything useful.

Searching on google for: "windows32_openpipe unable to launch process",
leads to information about old bug in make:

http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:z5XWgxdFFBAJ:www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg_raw.php3%3Fmsg_id%3D3200125+windows32_openpipe+unable+to+launch+process&hl=en

> I have been using "make" for some while under cygwin and it just work
> fine. However this week I tried to run "make" again, I got:
> 
> process_begin: CreateProcess((null), /bin/uname, ...) failed.
> y:\BIN\make.exe: *** windows32_openpipe (): unable to launch process (e=3)
> .  Stop.
> 
> I uninstalled cygwin and reinstalled it, but the problem is still there.
> Do you guys have a clue about what it should be?

Read and follow: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

WAG: y:\BIN\make.exe is probably not cygwin version of make.  Remove
y:\BIN from PATH.

-- Jacek.

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