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RE: Problem building GCC on Cygwin on Vista
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 mailing list.
Heh, I guess I shouldn't have been quite so specific when I asked about winzip.
It's basically any win32 gui unpacker that'll cause these kinds of problems.
Gotta use the cygwin tools!
cheers,
DaveK
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