On 03/12/2011 12:16, Dave Korn wrote:
> Running "make -j8 install" in a fresh build of head, I saw loads of the
> following error messages coming out in the log:
>
>> cp: cannot create regular file
>> `/gnu/gcc/install.obj3/gnu/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.7.0/adainclude/a-ztmoau.adb':
>> File exists cp: cannot create regular file
>> `/gnu/gcc/install.obj3/gnu/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.7.0/adainclude/a-ztmoio.adb':
>> File exists cp: cannot create regular file
>> `/gnu/gcc/install.obj3/gnu/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.7.0/adainclude/a-zttest.ads':
>> File exists cp: cannot create regular file
>> `/gnu/gcc/install.obj3/gnu/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.7.0/adainclude/a-zzboio.ads':
>> File exists cp: cannot create regular file
>> `/gnu/gcc/install.obj3/gnu/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.7.0/adainclude/ada.ads':
>> File exists cp: cannot create regular file
>> `/gnu/gcc/install.obj3/gnu/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.7.0/adainclude/directio.ads':
>> File exists
> [ ... snip ... ]
>
> Sure enough, all the files did exist, so I guess it must have been trying to
> install them twice. Before I try digging deeper, I thought I'd quickly ask:
> Does anyone else see this? (Is it perhaps something that wouldn't show up on
> a different host, such as linux, owing to differing filesystem semantics?)
This is confirmed and turns out to be the (known and now reopened) PR
bootstrap/38388.
cheers,
DaveK
