Cygwin troubles (absolute paths) (Was: dropping the unix tools)

I'm having troubles compiling the manual under Cygwin. Absolute paths don't work, sometimes I get /phpdoc (the Cygwin absolute path), sometimes c:\cygwin\phpdoc (the Windows absolute path). First I tried a minimal Cygwin installation, with PHP (4.3.4 CLI) and OpenJade in /opt/php and /opt/openjade. This didn't work. Then I installed the rest of the Cygwin standard distribution, and used the ../phpdoc-tools/ directory. This doesn't seem to work with OpenJade (somebody please update the configure.in script, I'm no autoconf expert), so I put Jade in. This still didn't work. How have others solved this problem? I know this is a very basic problem, but I'm stuck on it. And if I can't get Cygwin working, I can't continue with the SDK MSI package. Greetings, Jan Fabry This is the list of Cygwin packages that I think is the minimum for testing the manual. It's already 90 Mb, so if I could throw anything out, that would be great (Perl alone is 25 Mb). Entries starting with an arrow are basic requirements for the automake and configure step, entries after the : are their requirements. _update-info-dir: texinfo ash ash: cygwin -> autoconf: ash autoconf-devel autoconf-stable autoconf-devel: m4 perl mktemp texinfo _update-info-dir autoconf-stable: m4 perl mktemp base-passwd: cygwin ash bash: cygwin termcap _update-info-dir crypt: cygwin -> cvs: ash cygwin libgdbm4 crypt textutils _update-info-dir cygwin: libintl2 _update-info-dir base-passwd fileutils: ash cygwin libncurses5 terminfo libintl2 libiconv2 -> gawk: ash cygwin libiconv2 libintl2 -> grep: ash cygwin libintl1 libpcre libdb4.1: cygwin libgdbm3: cygwin libgdbm4: cygwin libgettextpo0: cygwin libintl2 libiconv2 libiconv2: cygwin libintl2 libintl1: cygwin libintl2: cygwin libiconv2 libncurses5: cygwin terminfo libpcre: cygwin libxml: cygwin libiconv2 zlib -> libxslt: cygwin libxml2 libiconv2 zlib m4: [none] -> make: cygwin fileutils ash libintl2 libiconv2 mktemp: cygwin perl: cygwin libgdbm3 libdb4.1 crypt termcap: cygwin terminfo: [none] texinfo: cygwin libintl1 libgettextpo0 textutils: ash cygwin libintl1 zlib: cygwin