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Re: permission denied.....


On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 02:42:11PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 01:49:15PM +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> >As per original email - SP6a.
> >
> >Harold - forgot to mention, this isn't a problem with the build for XFree86,
> >this is Cygwin specific, so cross-compilational has nothing to do with the
> >problem. The problem just shows up when compiling XFree86.
> >
> >My guess is that the cygwin1.dll is returning an -EACCES message back to
> >userland, and it manifests itself on NT4.
> >
> >I was really just enquiring if people had seen this on their systems. It
> >seems I should ask this question deeper on the cygwin list.
> 
> Running the process under strace would produce a voluminous amount of output
> but it would probably pinpoint the problem:
> 
>     strace -ostrace.out -b65536 make
> 
> or whatever.
> 
Thanks Chris. I'll have to incorporate that into the build somehow as it
only happens occasionally.

I'll let you know. 

Alan.


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