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Re: permission denied.....
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.
cgf