Building on Cygwin fails during the last step (linking)

[gene-pavlovsky]

When I build le on Cygwin, configure works fine, make proceeds almost to the end, then fails at the final linking step (the command that runs gcc on a bunch of .o files). The error is about a bunch of missing symbols.
Workaround: cd src, execute the same command, with gcc replaced by g++, cd .., make && make install - everything works then.
Perhaps some adjustment is needed to configure.ac or one of the Makefile.am files?