Well, I looked into the archives and found that there were reports about cygheap windows error 487. And I found that 1.5.9-1 was aimed at: "Work around "Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap" errors reported by some people in the cygwin mailing list"
About your tip: > 1. Try the latest snapshot. Well, I didn't know about snapshots. I figured out how to install it, so tried the 20040414 snapshot. And it seems to work! So thank you, I hope I will be able now to build the lilypond package. Bert -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/