Date:	Thu, 4 Mar 93 12:13:14 EST
From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT ctron DOT com>
To:	schwenn AT access DOT digex DOT com
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	AR.EXE ... Access denied

>I'm using djgpp to rebuild perl386 so I can make a "uperl" (Perl with
>user C sbrs attached).  When the perl386 makefile gets to:
>     ar rcv ....
>it responds: "access denied" on the library i'm trying to build
>("libmsdos.a") as if djgpp (like normal unix "ar") required me
>to be super-user to update certain libraries.

>I've just started to use djgpp gcc so I may very well have skipped over
>something basic.


The only thing I can think of is that it might be read-only.  Use
dos's ATTRIB command to see/change it.  Check the directories also.

DJ

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