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I am running the bash program in windows which was installed along with msys and mingw. I am trying to run ./configure. However whenever I do it the configuration freezes on "checking whether make sets $(MAKE)". Can you think of any reason why and how I can fix this issue.

I ran the command

sh -x ./configure

To see exactly where it freezes. The last run command is conftest.make which has the following code

SHELL = /bin/sh
all:
    @echo '@@@%%%=$(MAKE)=@@@%%%'

When I run this command by itself in command prompt make -f conftest.make the output is @@@%%%=make=@@@%%%. However if I start bash then run the same make command it freezes.

Why does it freeze here?

Logan Murphy
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Are you using MinGW? If you have version 1.8* try to downgrade to 1.7. You can report this as a bug here: http://sourceforge.net/p/mingw/bugs/

gj13
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