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Re: cannot open output file a.exe: Permission denied


At 05:44 PM 3/12/2002, Ethan Mallove wrote:
>I was trying to compile a simple multi-file C++
>program when i got this error message:
>
>/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/2.95.3-5/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld:
>cannot open output file a.exe: Permission denied
>collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
>i moved all the files into a different directory and
>abracadabra the error message didn't occur.  What was
>happening when i was getting the "permission denied"
>error?


I'm going to guess a permissions problem.  Review the email archives/user 
documentation for more information on this subject.



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