Error running make with cygwin utilities present

[Renbaum, Jay]

I run the builds for my company on my NT using the GNU Make version 3.76.1. 

I had no problems building until I downloaded the cygwin set of utilities.
It seems that my make is forking processes using the cygwin/bin/sh.exe
utility (now that it exists) rather than using the command executable. This
causes the build to fail with the following message:

[2]: Entering directory `J:/b2emarkets/common/rmifile'
Syntax error: ";;" unexpected
<<-------------------- this is the error that keeps occurring
make[2]: *** [b2emarkets.common.rmifile.RemoteFile] Error 2

I tried adding the MAKE_MODE environment variable set to WIN32, but this had
no effect.
The only solution that currently works is to rename the sh.exe utility to
cyg_sh.exe so that my make cannot find it.

However, when I do this, other cygwin utilities like 'man' stop working.

I would like to use the cygwin utilities. Will moving to a newer version of
make resolve this problem or is there some easier solution. I could not find
the resolution to my problem on the cygwin or gnu website so I am hoping
that you can help in some way.


Thank you for your time.

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