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RE: Errors using configure when building packages
- From: "Sinkler, Wharton" <Wharton dot Sinkler at Honeywell dot com>
- To: Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>, "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 22:54:11 +0000
- Subject: RE: Errors using configure when building packages
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Yes that did it. The problem was definitely caused by virus scan - McAfee. Not sure why, but excluding the folder from on-access scanner did not get rid of the error. Only by completely disabling Access Protection and On-Access Scanner in the McAfee console was I able to complete the configure script for ImageMagick on my Cygwin installation.
Thanks for the help and hope this will help others who encounter this problem.
-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Ken Brown
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2016 3:23 PM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Errors using configure when building packages
On 10/14/2016 1:46 PM, Sinkler, Wharton wrote:
> I've got a new Cygwin installation on Win7, which has issues with configure, the first step of building packages from source (I've seen this with ImageMagick, libtiff and others so it's not specific to the package I'm installing).
>
> It seems to sporadically be unable to remove a file 'conftest.exe' which is compiled in the tests within configure. This shows up during configure as:
>
> rm: cannot remove 'conftest.exe': Device or resource busy
>
> The configure will then fail completely when this causes a critical test to fail.
>
> I suspect that this might have something to do with slowness to release an in-use file (the conftest.exe) in the Win7 operating system. I've searched the archives and don't see this exact issue showing up in previous posts. Have others experienced this problem? Is there a fix which will allow me to complete building these packages?
Do you have security software installed that might be interfering with Cygwin?
Ken
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