On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 01:25:04PM +0200, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 02:10:50AM -0400, Ben M. wrote: > > > Furthermore, under Vista you must execute > > autogen.sh from a shell that is "Run as Administrator." When run > > without administrative privileges, the following error occurs: > > /usr/bin/m4:configure.ac:3: cannot create temporary file for > > diversion: Permission denied > > This looks like a permission problem. I can trigger a failure (even if > not exactly as yours) as follows: > > $ mkdir /tmp/notgood > $ chmod 0 /tmp/notgood > $ env TMPDIR=/tmp/notgood ./autogen.sh > Using automake (GNU automake) 1.10.1 > Using autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.63 > Building macros... > autom4te-2.63: cannot create /tmp/notgood/am4t7070.484: Permission denied > at /usr/bin/autom4te-2.63 line 958 > aclocal-1.10: autom4te failed with exit status: 1 > Building config header template... > autoheader not found -- aborting > > So, make sure that TMPDIR is not set (it may be imported from your > native Windows environment) and that the permissions on /tmp are correct. > The permissions on /tmp should be as follows: > > $ ls -ld /tmp > drwxrwxrwt+ 6 root None 20480 May 20 12:53 /tmp > > If in the first column you don't see "drwxrwxrwt+", try issuing: > > $ chmod 1777 /tmp > > and see whether this solves the problem (remember to also unset TMPDIR > if it is already set).
If it is not due to TMPDIR, it may be due to BLODA interference: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2008-12/msg00039.html http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=43019 Check whether you have any of the BLODA applications listed here: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda -- Enrico
