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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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