compiling coreutils with cygport

2012-07-13 Thread Jeff Janes
If I use setup.exe to download the src for coreutils (just by checking the "Src?" checkbox in the gui) , and then use cygport to build it, it fails. The reason it fails seems to be that ginstall.exe does not have the proper manifest file so windows refuses to execute it. This is the same error y

permission denied while executing files which have execute permission

2012-05-04 Thread Jeff Janes
Twice in the last week I've run into a problem where I can't execute programs which have the correct execute permissions set under both chmod and setfacl. It took me a long time to track it down to the issue described here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/windowssecurity/thread/73f86