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Re: cygwin make fails when calling mkdir in Windows 7
Warren Young wrote
> Is there a particularly good reason you haven't tried upgrading yet?
Yes. I am locked to that version for business reasons. I have started the
conversation internally RE upgrading.
Warren Young wrote
> You can't expect people to downgrade just to help
> you, if it turns out to be an old bug.
I'm not expecting anyone to downgrade.
Warren Young wrote
> What happens if you move the build tree under ~cpow? Does it always
> succeed, or does the problem remain?
Apologies I meant to specify more of the path but forgot to paste! The
location of my build is several folders under ~, where ~ is:
$ echo $HOME
/cygdrive/c/Projects
The permissions of that:
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Domain Users 0 Dec 13 15:56
Projects
Warren Young wrote
> This suggests BLODA. Nothing other than some bit of quasi-malware
> should have the ability to deny Administrator the right to do anything.
Having googled BLODA I can assume you might be referring to McAfee or
anything else my employer's overprotective IT department forces me to use?
I have tried with McAfee's "on access scan" and "access protection" tasks
disabled and get the same results. If I uninstall McAfee I'm likely to
receive a nastygram from Big Brother.
Warren Young wrote
> What happens if you just re-start the make operation? Does it persist
> in failing to get past that point, or does re-starting it sometimes get
> you past the problem?
If I restart the make operation without doing mkdir myself it fails in
exactly the same spot. Restarting it without doing mkdir myself never gets
past the problem.
Warren Young wrote
> I'm basing this question on the assumption that the Makefile is
> well-written, such that if the directory creation fails, re-starting the
> make operation will retry the mkdir operation. That requires that
> someone has set up the necessary dependency rules, though.
I've inspected the makefile and I think it is constructed well.
Warren Young wrote
> Is it always the same paths, or is it random?
Same.
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