cygwin compile failure

[Reuben Thomas]

> Perhaps I am taking the wrong route...
> Initially I tried to compile with ghc version 4.08.1b.
> I've attached the output.
> It can't find the "posix" directory.  Maybe "configure" didn't specify
> the correct options for my version of ghc?

If you're doing this on Windows, you have to use

./configure --host=i386-unknown-mingw32

This is (or should be) in the building guide.

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