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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:46:54 -0500
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From: Craig Lanning <CraigL@DyCon.com>
Subject: Re: Trouble with Bash
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At 07:07 PM 2/28/00 -0500, Glenn Spell wrote:
>On 28 Feb 2000 around 5:29PM (-0500) Craig Lanning wrote:
>
>> At 07:01 PM 2/26/00 -0500, Glenn Spell wrote:
>>
>> >> > ./configure: cannot create temp file for here
>> >> > document: Permission denied
>> >
>> >I've seen this. I worked around it instead of tracking it down but
>> >I suspect it's a problem with the newer snapshots when spanning
>> >disks or partitions.
>>
>> That's not the problem here.  Everything is on one partition of one
>> disk (C:\).
>
>...
>
>I always use the //c/... convention to access C:\ from bash. I
>also remember using the 8.3 name version of a directory along
>about that same timeframe. That was memorial because I seldom do
>that. Ahh! Perhaps there was a "space" in the pathname.
>
>Nope. I just tried that. Wow, it works!
>
>I don't know. Does it happen when you use ash as sh also?

No, if I use ash as sh the ./configure works fine.  (ash-as-sh causes
problems later in the build process.)

>Back to what Tim was suggesting... do you have a /tmp directory
>or a TMPDIR and/or TMP environment variable in addition to the
>Windows TEMP? I do, but I still got that error.

I have the environment variables TEMP and TMP both set to c:\tmp.

Craig


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