Re: Problem building GCC on Cygwin on Vista

2007-08-21 Thread Steve Holden
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Re: Problem building GCC on Cygwin on Vista

2007-08-21 Thread Aaron Gray
On 20 August 2007 22:53, Aaron Gray wrote: Why is it different from gcc-4.2.0's ? Okay I am kicking myself now many hours wasted it was because I used a Windows program WinRAR to unpack my work rather than using tar !!! It was a permissions problem afterall. Very sorry for poluting your mail

RE: Problem building GCC on Cygwin on Vista

2007-08-21 Thread Dave Korn
On 20 August 2007 22:53, Aaron Gray wrote: >> Why is it different from gcc-4.2.0's ? > > Okay I am kicking myself now many hours wasted it was because I used a > Windows program WinRAR to unpack my work rather than using tar !!! > > It was a permissions problem afterall. > > Very sorry for polu

Re: Problem building GCC on Cygwin on Vista

2007-08-20 Thread Aaron Gray
Why is it different from gcc-4.2.0's ? Okay I am kicking myself now many hours wasted it was because I used a Windows program WinRAR to unpack my work rather than using tar !!! It was a permissions problem afterall. Very sorry for poluting your mailing list. Regards, Aaron -- Unsubscribe

Re: Problem building GCC on Cygwin on Vista

2007-08-20 Thread Aaron Gray
Okay getfacl is reporting 'user::---' rather than 'user::rwx' for depcomp on my patched version of GCC. This leads to two questions ... How do I modify this to be correct ? Why is it different from gcc-4.2.0's ? Thanks for bearing with me. Aaron -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/

Re: Problem building GCC on Cygwin on Vista

2007-08-20 Thread Aaron Gray
Ignore the previous post depcomp is under src/gcc-4.2.0 not build/gcc-4.2.0 ! Sorry to mess you about. I'll get some ACL results now ... Aaron -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http:

Re: Problem building GCC on Cygwin on Vista

2007-08-20 Thread Aaron Gray
Okay I printed out '$am_depcomp' which was effectivly 'gcc4.2.0/libcpp/../depcomp' and put an 'exit' at (effective) line 2888 and the file gcc4.2.0/depcomp does not seem to exist. Very strange as I found 'depcomp' before previously and its printing 'line: 2888: ./depcomp: permisssion denied' r

Re: Problem building GCC on Cygwin on Vista

2007-08-20 Thread Aaron Gray
Aaron Gray wrote: A Windows text editor called Zeus. That's it. I bet the problem disappears if you use a Cygwin text editor such as vim. When a native Windows app creates a file, it usually does not do anything special with the ACL, so it gets whatever the default inheritable permissions of

Re: Problem building GCC on Cygwin on Vista

2007-08-20 Thread Brian Dessent
Aaron Gray wrote: > A Windows text editor called Zeus. That's it. I bet the problem disappears if you use a Cygwin text editor such as vim. When a native Windows app creates a file, it usually does not do anything special with the ACL, so it gets whatever the default inheritable permissions of

RE: Problem building GCC on Cygwin on Vista

2007-08-20 Thread Dave Korn
On 20 August 2007 19:13, Aaron Gray wrote: >> On 20 August 2007 18:16, Aaron Gray wrote: >>> Hopefully I shall get to the bottom of it if I perservere, but any help or >>> suggestions are welcome. >> >> Well, why don't you actually *look* at those perms, instead of asking people >> who have no

Re: Problem building GCC on Cygwin on Vista

2007-08-20 Thread Aaron Gray
On 20 August 2007 18:16, Aaron Gray wrote: Unmodified GCC 4.2.0 compiles okay, but when modified cracks appear, only on Vista though, XP is okay. So must be something to do with permissions. So, what tool did you use to 'modify' it? A Windows text editor called Zeus. I have been altering

RE: Problem building GCC on Cygwin on Vista

2007-08-20 Thread Dave Korn
On 20 August 2007 18:16, Aaron Gray wrote: >>> Unmodified GCC 4.2.0 compiles okay, but when modified cracks appear, only >>> on Vista though, XP is okay. So must be something to do with permissions. >> >> So, what tool did you use to 'modify' it? > > A Windows text editor called Zeus. > > I ha

Re: Problem building GCC on Cygwin on Vista

2007-08-20 Thread Aaron Gray
On 20 August 2007 17:42, Aaron Gray wrote: On Aug 20 16:20, Dave Korn wrote: BTW, you didn't by any chance use winzip to unpack the tarball did you? No. Just checking. Windoze tools don't generally do the right thing for cygwin's emulation of posix perms. Apart from that, the file p

Re: Problem building GCC on Cygwin on Vista

2007-08-19 Thread Aaron Gray
On 19 August 2007 20:22, Aaron Gray wrote: On building GCC on Vista I am getting a permissions error on building 'intl' with 'libintl.h' being unaccessable. Any insights or help welcomed, Welcome to the Cywin Package List: http://cygwin.com/packages/ Do you have libintl.h installed? It'

RE: Problem building GCC on Cygwin on Vista

2007-08-19 Thread Dave Korn
On 19 August 2007 20:22, Aaron Gray wrote: > On building GCC on Vista I am getting a permissions error on building 'intl' > with 'libintl.h' being unaccessable. > > Any insights or help welcomed, Welcome to the Cywin Package List: http://cygwin.com/packages/ Do you have libintl.h installed