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RE: permission denied.....
- To: "'Alan Hourihane'" <alanh at fairlite dot demon dot co dot uk>
- Subject: RE: permission denied.....
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 08:42:02 -0400
- Cc: "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
Alan,
Service pack? This is NT 4.0 specific... I noticed it only on NT 4.0...
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Hourihane [mailto:alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 3:40 AM
> To: Suhaib Siddiqi
> Cc: 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com'
> Subject: Re: permission denied.....
>
>
> I am logged in as a user that's been given 'Administrator' privileges.
>
> But like I say, I can walk back into the directory and type
> 'make' and it builds fine. Sometimes the build will complete
> normally too. It only happens occasionally - so I don't
> believe there's anything wrong with permissions at all.
>
> It's always cpp0.exe though. I suspect it could be a bogus
> return value, or test case in this program. I guess I'll have
> to grab to source to check it out though.
>
> Alan.
>
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 07:33:30PM -0400, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> >
> > Are you login as Administrator? A couple of years ago I had this
> > problem and it had something to do with NT permissions.
> >
> > Suhaib
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Alan Hourihane [mailto:alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 6:44 PM
> > > To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> > > Subject: permission denied.....
> > >
> > > I'm wondering if anyone else has ever seen this.
> > >
> > > It only happens very occasionally, but sometimes when I'm
> building
> > > the X tree on cygwin 1.3.3 on my WinNT 4.0 box (SP6a) I get
> > > 'permission denied'
> > > when building....
> > >
> > > Example build problem.....
> > >
> > > gcc -c -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -Wall -Wpointer-arith
> -I../.. -
> > > I../../exports/include -D__i386__ -DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
> -DX_LOCALE -
> > > D_X86_ -D__STDC__ -DNO_TCP_H -D__CYGWIN__ -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -
> > > D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199309L -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE
> -D_GNU_SOURCE -
> > > DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO GenKey.c
> > > cpp0.exe: /cygdrive/c/TEMP/cc2ffvs1.i: Permission denied
> > > make[4]: *** [GenKey.o] Error 1
> > >
> > > If I go back into this directory and whack 'make' again it's fine
> > > and builds.
> > >
> > > Anyone seen this ?
> > >
> > > It did happen with 1.3.2 too, but never happened with 1.3.1.
> > >
> > > I've tried various flavours of the binutils packages too, I'm
> > > currently running with the latest 1st Oct. release.
> > >
> > > Alan.
>