If you do not know what Pipe Viewer is (I did not know about it until 5 minutes ago), then this blog does a good job giving a brief introduction to it with some examples. I writ
I finally made it work on Cygwin environment though that is not answer for the original post.
--disable-nls does the trick.
--disable-nls
./configure --disable-nls make make test cp pv /usr/bin
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