In order to get the files to make I had to kill off nearly all processes
but CygWin. Otherwise I got a (approx.) "Forked process not available"
message. (I don’t remember the precise wording, but killing off almost
all other processes, including network connections, enabled ./configure
to complete.)
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– Charles Hixson
Gnu software that is free,
The best is yet to be.