Can't build cross-assembler on CYGWIN

[Kate Romanova <kate_romanov at yahoo dot com>]

Hi,
Please don't be harsh on me. I'm new here and I'm a girl :)
I need to build a cross assembler. Build and host platforms is Cygwin. Target platform is
64 bit Linux.
I thought it will be 20 minutes exercise. 
I did configure:
./configure -target=ia64-unknown-linux-gnu --prefix=/cygdrive/c/Users/Work/GAS/build
Configure seems to work fine and finish. Makefile got generated.
Then I did 'make'. BUT Makefile DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!
That's the output that make gave me.
$ make
make[1]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/Users/Work/GAS'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all-host'.
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all-target'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/Users/Work/GAS'

I saw the only suspicious part when I searched in the config.log, when I tried to figure out what went wrong. I doubt that this is the cause of the problem...
configure:3720: result: none needed
configure:3738: gcc -c -g -O2? conftest.c >&5
conftest.c:2: error: parse error before "me"
configure:3744: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| #ifndef __cplusplus
|?? choke me
| #endif

Is there someone who could help me to figure out how to make "make" work?
Thanks a lot!
I attached config.log just in case.
Ekaterina.

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