Alex Ferguson
(This was all motivated, btw, by trying to build HaXml under ghc/cygwin, which fell for me at the first hurdle of "first catch your hmake" in the recipe. I've now gotten as far as a _build_ of hmake, but it then runs into similar issues with its own use of the f/s (rc files and what-not). If anyone has this one down pat already, they might save my tired brain some pain, otherwise I'll summarise to the list if and when I get some sort of resolution myself.)
I am planning to release a new version of hmake (and other tools) very soon, and would really *really* like to get these Cygwin problems licked once and for all. To this end, I have rolled a "release candidate" of hmake-3.07, which I would implore at least one Cygwin user, preferably a couple more, to test-drive before I make a proper release. http://haskell.org/hmake Please mail me with successes as well as failures. By the way, Claus's summary of the problem + fixes was extremely helpful, and I hope it has clarified things sufficiently for me to get it nearly right this time! Regards, Malcolm