Re: Cygwin on Windows Server 2003 - Permission problems !?

[Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>]

Clemens Arth wrote:

> llvm-ar: can't rename 'c:/cygwin/admin/funnylibrary.a-dofeyJ' as
> 'c:/cygwin/admin/funnylibrary.a' Permission denied

  Failure of rename-into-place is almost always caused by an AV program (or
similar) that opens handles to your files and holds them open when your
program was expecting nothing to have them open.  Take a browse at the FAQ entry:

    http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda

> The second interesting thing is that although everything runs inside the
> cygwin shell, the file names in the error report are in windows format
> (as you can see above). Might this cause some problems, and why does
> this happen?

  Because you are running a non-Cygwin version of 'ar', using a script that
translates filenames for you automatically.  So it is in fact rather likely
that this isn't a cygwin problem at all, even though you happen to see it when
you launch the programs from a cygwin shell.

    cheers,
      DaveK

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