make scripts on Windows (cygwin)

[Federico Bruni]

I'd like to update the italian translation before 2.16.1 release.
I have a problem: I'm abroad until Friday and I only have a Windows laptop.

I guess that you will recommend LilyDev. Not tried yet, as I'm not
really interested in compiling Lilypond.
I just need to be able to run some make commands for the translation
maintenance.

I've installed Cygwin and the packages needed for compiling (well, I hope so).
But I get an error when I run configure:

$ ./configure
configure: error: cannot run /bin/sh stepmake/bin/config.sub

$ sh
sh.exe          shasum          shimeng.dll     shrpubw.exe
sha1sum.exe     shdocvw.dll     shimgvw.dll     shsetup.dll
sha224sum.exe   shell32.dll     shlwapi.dll     shsvcs.dll
sha256sum.exe   shellstyle.dll  shmtool.exe     shuf.exe
sha384sum.exe   shfolder.dll    shopt           shunimpl.dll
sha512sum.exe   shgina.dll      shpafact.dll    shutdown.exe
shacct.dll      shift           shred.exe       shwebsvc.dll

$ sh configure
configure: error: cannot run /bin/sh stepmake/bin/config.sub


Can any Windows user help me?
Thanks,
Federico