John Clement wrote:

I've just started following the isntructions on the site to get this
working, but it suggests I should be installing ALL of the stuff in
devel.  This seems rather a lot, is this really the case or just
slightly old documentation and there is now a shorter list of stuff I
need to install?

For cygwin 1.5.19-4 the following list was sufficient:
   cygwin defaults
   gcc
   inetutils
   m4
   make
   more (if you want to use amrecover)
   readline with source


Regards,

Robert