Fw: [Mingw-msys] conftest.c: Permission deneid

[Andreas Köhler]

Hi Stephen,

that is part of the major update I am preparing locally right now.

Ciao,
-- andi5

Stephen Grant Brown schrieb:
> Hi All
> 
> I am using Windows XP
> 
> Here is part of a conversion I have been having on the mingw-msys list.
> 
> I am having the same conftest.c file permission denied while building 
> gnucash.
> 
> Is it worth while upgrading to gcc to 3.4.5?
> 
> Yours Sincerely Stephen Grant Brown
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Cesar Strauss" <cestrauss at gmail.com>
> To: <mingw-msys at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 5:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [Mingw-msys] conftest.c: Permission deneid
> 
> 
>> Cesar Strauss wrote:
>>> Stephen Grant Brown wrote:
>>>> Here are the last few lines of a configure command
>>>>
>>>> checking for build system executable suffix... ../gmp-4.2.2/configure:
>>>> conftest.c: Permission denied
>>>> configure: error: Cannot determine executable suffix
>>>>
>>>> GNUCash at ELSHADAI <mailto:GNUCash at ELSHADAI>
>>>> ~/src/MSYS_Supp_Tools/gmp-4.2.2-MSYS/make
>>>> Here are the last few lines of  config.log
>>>>
>>> These last few lines of config.log were not sufficient. Please compress
>>> the whole file and send it to me.
>>>
>> Thanks for sending me the config.log file.
>>
>> The log starts well:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> configure:6824: checking for C compiler default output file name
>> configure:6827: gcc -m32 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -mtune=k6 -march=k6
>> -mno-cygwin   conftest.c  >&5
>> configure:6830: $? = 0
>> configure:6876: result: a.exe
>> configure:6881: checking whether the C compiler works
>> configure:6887: ./a.exe
>> configure:6890: $? = 0
>> configure:6907: result: yes
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Then, something strange happens:
>>
>> configure:7666: gcc -c -m32 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -mtune=k6 -march=k6
>> -mno-cygwin  conftest.c >&5
>> gcc.exe: conftest.c: No such file or directory
>> gcc.exe: no input files
>> configure:7672: $? = 1
>> configure: failed program was:
>> [no output]
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> More strangeness follows later:
>>
>> configure:7855: checking for build system executable suffix
>> configure:7869: gcc conftest.c -o conftest.exe
>> gcc.exe: conftest.c: Permission denied
>> gcc.exe: no input files
>> configure:7872: $? = 1
>> configure:7869: gcc conftest.c -o conftest,ff8
>> gcc.exe: conftest.c: Permission denied
>> gcc.exe: no input files
>> configure:7872: $? = 1
>> configure:7869: gcc conftest.c -o conftest
>> gcc.exe: conftest.c: Permission denied
>> gcc.exe: no input files
>> configure:7872: $? = 1
>> configure:7882: error: Cannot determine executable suffix
>>
>> From the top of the log, I see:
>> uname -m = i686
>> uname -r = 1.0.10(0.46/3/2)
>> uname -s = MINGW32_NT-5.1
>> uname -v = 2004-03-15 07:17
>>
>> Could you try it with MSYS 1.0.11? Perhaps there is a race condition
>> that was solved between 1.0.10 and 1.0.11.
>>
>> To install it, download the file
>>
>> File Name:
>> msysCORE-1.0.11-20080826.tar.gz
>> Download Page:
>> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435&package_id=24963
>>
>> Also, I see:
>> configure:6785: checking for C compiler version
>> configure:6788: gcc --version </dev/null >&5
>> gcc.exe (GCC) 3.4.2 (mingw-special)
>>
>> Could you try upgrading to the latest gcc (3.4.5)?
>>
>> Finally, from the very beginning:
>>
>> It was created by GNU MP configure 4.2.2, which was
>> generated by GNU Autoconf 2.59.  Invocation command line was
>>
>>   $ ../gmp-4.2.2/configure
>>
>> Could you try the latest gmp (4.2.4)?
>> Also, I recommend adding "--enable-shared --disable-static" to the
>> configure call.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Cesar