REAL Problem building GCC on Cygwin on Vista

[Aaron Gray]

> On Aug 20 16:20, Dave Korn wrote:
>> On 20 August 2007 15:49, Aaron Gray wrote:
>> >>> On 19 August 2007 20:22, Aaron Gray wrote:
>> > AFACT this actually looks like a Vista problem.
>> > [...]
>>   Hm, that sounds like a file that you have write but not delete
>> permissions
>> to.
>>
>> > Can someone look into this please,
>>
>>   Well, just to state the obvious, /you/ would be the most ideally-placed
>> person to do so.
>>
>>   I don't even have Vista, so I'm kinda ruled out there, but I'd take a
>> look
>> at the perms and ACLs of conftest.dir and the existing depcomp file in
>> there,
>> using both 'getfacl' to show cygwin's view of the posix-style perms, and
>> 'cacls' to compare with windoze's opinion.
>>
>>   BTW, you didn't by any chance use winzip to unpack the tarball did you?

No.

> Apart from that, the file permission settings are the same in Vista
> compared to older OSes.  The exception is the UAC stuff which could
> result in some executables having less permissions than usual, if, for
> instance, Internet Explorer has been used to download the executable.
> We can hopefully rule this out here, so it's just some permission
> problem which has nothing to do with the base OS.

Works fine on XP. The only things that are diferent are the Cygwin
instillation and Vista.

>  Note: Not all
> problems on Vista are Vista's (or, FWIW, Cygwin's) fault.  See, for
> example http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PEBCAK for one possible explanation
> of the problem.

Nice reply :)

Does look like a case of PEBCAK.

Unmodified GCC 4.2.0 compiles okay, but when modified cracks appear, only on 
Vista though, XP is okay. So must be something to do with permissions.

Aaron


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