you can no longer use mixed cygwin paths as dependancies in a makefile any more. for example, the following lines in a makefile fail: mytarget: C:/windows echo hello world running "make" on the above 2-line makefile yields the error: Makefile:1: *** target pattern contains no `%'. Stop. this used to work in a previous version of make. arguably it it not obliged to work because the colon is the delimitter between the target name and the dependency list, but this "feature" breaks our entire build system, so i have reverted to a previous version of make. -Eric Johanson Newpoint Technologies, Inc.