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Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 15:53:31 -0400
To: Evan Tuer <evan DOT tuer AT gmail DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Problem getting started, Windows 98
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At 03:44 PM 4/20/2005, you wrote:
>Hello,
>  I have installed Cygwin recently on my Windows 98 SE machine.  
>Following the instructions, I then installed a "binutils" package for
>AVR cross-compiler (this one:
>http://www.bladox.com/pub/turbo-win32-040129.zip).
>cd /  
>tar xvfpz usr.tar.gz
>
>Stuff un-packed and installed, without reporting any error. 
>Unfortunately, I can't get it to work - for example.
>
>"BASH: make: command not found"
>
>Looking at the cygcheck results, it also reports that make and other
>essential bits are "not found".  I can't figure out why that should
>be, since (I think) the "devel" stuff seemed to be installed from the
>setup program.
>
>So, maybe something essential is missing. If someone knowledgeable
>could have a look at the attached cygcheck.out file and tell me
>whether the problem is in my basic cygwin installation or the
>additional binutils package, or a general idea of what's wrong, I
>would be extremely grateful!


You forgot to attach your cygcheck output.  However, based on your 
description of it, it sounds like you have not, indeed, installed 
the make package and other "essential bits" from the "Devel" category.
Just rerun 'setup.exe' and install the packages you want.


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