cygwin on windows problem

Hi
I get the following errors trying to get postgres running. The system is
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 nes10600 1.5.10(0.116/4/2) 2004-05-25 22:07 i686 unknown
unknown Cygwin

postgres is postgres (PostgreSQL) 7.4.3

postgres --describe-config output is attached
<<postgres --describe-config.txt>>

I also found this
$ grep 12 /usr/include/cygwin/signal.h
#define SIGSYS 12 /* bad argument to system call */

Any suggestions would be very gratefully received
ta
Alan

BESWICA(at)nes10600 ~
$ ipc-daemon2 &
[1] 3532

BESWICA(at)nes10600 ~
$ initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -W -E LATIN1
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user
"BESWICA".
This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.

creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data... ok
creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/base... ok
creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/global... ok
creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_xlog... ok
creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_clog... ok
selecting default max_connections... Signal 12
Signal 12
Signal 12
Signal 12
Signal 12
Signal 12
10
selecting default shared_buffers... Signal 12
Signal 12
Signal 12
Signal 12
Signal 12
Signal 12
Signal 12
Signal 12
Signal 12
Signal 12
Signal 12
50
creating configuration files... ok
creating template1 database in /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1... Signal 12

initdb: failed
initdb: removing data directory "/usr/local/pgsql/data"

Alan Beswick
Climate Impacts and Natural Resource Systems
Dept of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy
80 Meiers Rd, Indooroopilly 4068
Phone 07 3896 9741
Facsimile 07 3896 9843

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