Problem building GCC on Cygwin on Vista

[Aaron Gray]

> On 20 August 2007 22:53, Aaron Gray wrote:
>
>>> Why is it different from gcc-4.2.0's ?
>>
>> Okay I am kicking myself now many hours wasted it was because I used a
>> Windows program WinRAR to unpack my work rather than using tar !!!
>>
>> It was a permissions problem afterall.
>>
>> Very sorry for poluting your mailing list.
>
>  Heh, I guess I shouldn't have been quite so specific when I asked about 
> winzip.
> It's basically any win32 gui unpacker that'll cause these kinds of 
> problems.
> Gotta use the cygwin tools!

Yep, no problem on XP though. I am finding Vista a bit of a dog, lots of 
wasted tim trying to do "bug fixes"/work arounds.

I had forgotten I had used WinRAR.

Many thanks for putting up with my postings,

Aaron


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