initdb stalled?

Installed postgres using:

./configure  --prefix=/usr/local --enable-multibyte --enable-locale --
enable-recode

Ran initdb and a postgres process is peggs the CPU for several minutes
until I killed it.  It's a 600Mhz Thinkpad running:

CYGWIN_NT-5.0 JESTER 1.3.9(0.51/3/2) 2002-01-21 12:48 i686 unknown


Someone had to get initdb to work in order for this to be a supported
platform right?
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Rod Taylor

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