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Re: Cygwin /tmp\foo behaviour


It looks like the released version of gcc is confused by a TMP environment
variable.  We're working on this but for now, unsetting it should work
fine.

Btw, '\' is a shell quoting character so 'ls /tmp\foo' is the same thing
as 'ls /tmpfoo'.

cgf

On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 05:36:10PM -0700, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
>Do you have a /tmp directory under / ?  If there is no
>/tmp directory, make cannot write temporary files to
>it and you will indeed get "ld: cannot open
>/tmpfoo.exe: No such file or directory"
>
>--- Trevor Forbes <trevorforbes@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>> When building Xfree I get the following error using
>> cygwin1.1.2
>> 
>> rm -f libX11.a
>> rm -f libX11.dll
>> if [ -f /tmp/DLL_BASE_COUNTER ]; then true; \
>> else echo 0x67000000 > /tmp/DLL_BASE_COUNTER; fi
>> dllwrap -s --def X11.def --output-lib libX11.a -o
>> libX11.dll Context.o
>> Depths.o  ParseCmd.o  Quarks.o
>> >
>> parts removes
>> >
>> ..omTextPer.o  omXChar.o  junk.o  -image-base `cat
>> /tmp/DLL_BASE_COUNTER`
>>
>/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/2.95.2/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld:
>> Can't open base file /tmp\cc017659.base
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> dllwrap: gcc exited with status 1
>> make[4]: *** [libX11.dll] Error 1
>> make[4]: Target `all' not remade because of errors.
>> make[4]: Leaving directory
>> `/e/build2/cygwin-xfree/lib/X11'
>> 
>> 
>> I assumed that "Can't open base file
>> /tmp\cc017659.base" is the problem?
>> 
>> If I do a test
>> $ ld /tmp\foo.exe
>> ld: cannot open /tmpfoo.exe: No such file or
>> directory
>>                             ^^^^^^^^^^^
>> Is this the expected behaviour with the latest
>> Cygwin?
>> 
>> Does any one else see the same problem or have I
>> done something wrong?

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