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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.