I forwarded your suggestion to the MingW list; and here's the reply of one of the developers:
> Can't say that I'll join this, but for libtool/autoconf/automake/m4 see > the MSYS links at www.mingw.org and the msysDTK alpha package in the SF > Files page. > Earnie. > At 18:57 25.06.2002, Per Einar Ellefsen wrote: >>>Is gnu make ported to mingw as well? If so, this intersects neatly with binutils 2.11 and gnumake 3.79 are available. >>>some >>>work related research deadlines I have coming up :-) >> >>I have a make running here, but I think I saw somewhere it's pretty >>crippled. I can't seem to find it back though, so maybe I was dreaming! > Of course, when I think about it, it's pretty awkward running a normal > make > someplace that doesn't have "sh", because many commands might not work. there are also some sh available, but I dont know if you really can run configure on them; but another aproach maybe building it under the Cygwin shell but link for MingW32; I've not self tried but there exists some switches, f.e. -nocygwin; maybe Stipe knows how this could be done... Guenter.
