24.2. Installing GNU Autotools on Cygwin
With all the previously described infrastructure in place, each of the GNU Autotools can be built natively and installed from source right out of the box. Take care with the installation directories, however, because there is no package management under Cygwin, and it is easy to let everything get thrown into a big pile in '/usr/local', which makes it relatively difficult to upgrade and remove packages.
Support for Cygwin has been in Autoconf for several years, as far back as version 2 (as best as I can tell). Building it has never been a problem as long as GNU M4 and a Bourne shell are available; the macros themselves offer this support. Of course, you must carefully design any Autoconf macros that you ...
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