`make` in Windows stopped working because of "write error"

Question

I have had make for Windows (gnuwin32.sourceforge.net) installed on my W11 machine and today it just stopped working out of a sudden, without even a computer restart taking place between the last time I was able to run it successfully and now.

This is what I'm seeing now when trying to run it, directly from the binary location:

C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin> make.exe
make: *** ??????????????????·??????, makefile ?????????????.  ???.

C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin> make.exe -version
GNU Make 3.81
Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
???·??????????????????????. ??????????????????????·???????????.
????????????????????????????????????·??, ??????????.

This program built for i386-pc-mingw32
make: write error

I already tried the restart + uninstall + reinstall + restart path with no luck.

I find it weird that half of the license text is corrupted.

Any clue what could be causing it?

Answer 1

As a workaround, I installed v4.4.1 from Chocolatey.