X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 23:02:36 +0200 (MET DST) From: Angelo Graziosi To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problems using 'mkdirhier' In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > > > Trying to build an application downloaded from the web, the make fails > > using 'mkdirhier'. I have reproduced this with the following example: > > > > As Administrator: > > ------------------------------------- > > $ cd > > $ mkdirhier /home/Administrator/foo1/foo2/lib > > mkdir: cannot create directory `//home': No such host or network path > > mkdir: cannot create directory `//home/Administrator': Permission denied > > mkdir: cannot create directory `//home/Administrator/foo1': Permission denied > > mkdir: cannot create directory `//home/Administrator/foo1/foo2': Permission denied > > mkdir: cannot create directory `//home/Administrator/foo1/foo2/lib': Permission denied > > ------------------------------------- > > > > ..... > > Googling for "mkdirhier site:cygwin.com inurl:ml/cygwin" should turn up > the fixes you need. Applying the patch reported in http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-06/msg00374.html seems to solve the problem! Thanks, Angelo. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/