Recent version ps command does not support option -o, which is widely used in many makefiles. This option is trivial to implement and it would greatly improve QL for me and many other users, although i ' m not into building sygwin to fix it myself. COMMAND ps -o command -p $$ what makefile expected /usr/bin/bash what did it get ps: unknown option -- o Try `ps --help' for more information. Example: When output for ps -p $$ is PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND 383 382 383 1040 pty0 197610 15:27:24 /usr/bin/bash ps -o pid -p $$ should yield 383 ps -o STIME -p $$ should yield 15:27:24 Many users need thist implemented, for no longer manually fixing shscripts