This is not a problem with GNU make, and hence we can't help you.
You should contact the people developing the package that isn't building
correctly (in this case lesstif) and see if they can provide direction.
Sorry...
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I'm making lesstif 0.93.3 in Cygwin on the PC. The configure and make steps
proceed without error, but the make install fails. It's attempting to link
to .so files (which are dynamic libraries I believe) but as near as I can
tell Cygwin can only handle static libraries (.a). I explicitly added the