Hi,
Well, how nice. Could this be Yet Another slash-back slash transposition issue?
The original line from the runlex shell script is:  
outfile=`echo "$1" | sed 's/-o\(.*\)/\1/'` 
So how come these are all slashes now?
Thanks,
Jaap
 
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 08:48:25 +0100, "Steve" <stevep@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all,
  
Can somebody help with the following error. I am using  VS2008 env, and latest cygwin, but encounter the following error when  building;
  
build output snippet...
 
Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version  9.00.21022.08
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights  reserved.
 
'codecs.lib' is  up-to-date
        cd  ..
        cd  wsutil
        "C:\Program Files  (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\BIN\nmake.exe"  /
                   -f Makefile.nmake
 
Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version  9.00.21022.08
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights  reserved.
 
        cd  ..
        cd  wiretap
        "C:\Program Files  (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\BIN\nmake.exe"  /
                   -f Makefile.nmake
 
Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version  9.00.21022.08
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights  reserved.
 
        bash -o igncr  -o posix ..\tools\runlex.sh "flex" -oascend_scanner.c  asce
nd_scanner.l
sed: 1: "s/-o/(.*/)//1/": bad flag in substitute  command: ')'
 
 
Regards
 
Steve