FYI, cygcheck grep.exe shows that grep is linked against the recent version of pcre, not the old unversioned one. So I changed the requirement in grep's setup.hint file on sourceware from
requires: ... libpcre to requires: ... libpcre0 Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc.