I installed a fresh copy of the latest cygwin on a new laptop. I grabbed a copy of nmake.exe from Microsoft, since that's the usual make one needs, and put it in the System32 folder. I fired up CPAN and tried to install Flickr::API. Along the way, it choked, saying: 
NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't know how to make '/usr/lib/perl5/5.10
+/i686-cygwin/Config.pm'

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Okay, so this looks like nmake, a DOS utility, is befuddled by a cygwin pseudo-UNIX path. Now, surely there must be zillions of people using perl under cygwin, adding modules, etc. How do y'all do it? Is there a proper make utility for cygwin perl other than nmake that I should be using instead?

In reply to How do folks build modules under cygwin perl? by gregor-e

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