Delivered-To: listarch-cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 14:41:14 -0500 (EST) From: Tripp Lilley To: John Fortin cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: make and .exe targets (more info) In-Reply-To: <36BB3F4E.51114050@ibm.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, John Fortin wrote: > /cygnus/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/i586-cygwin32/bin/ld: cannot open output file > winhello.exe > : No such file or directory I'm currently booted in Linux, so I can't experiment with possible 'why' scenarios, but it seems that this line is telling you something about your problem. Check permissions -- if you're running under NT, make sure that you have the rights you think you should have on your output directories and such. As a test under Linux, I made a hello.c and an ultra simple makefile (with an implicit .c.exe rule like yours), then put them in a directory that I changed to read-only. Here's what I got as output: [tlilley AT defiant tmp]$ make gcc hello.c -o hello.exe ld: cannot open output file hello.exe: Permission denied make: *** [hello.exe] Error 1 Granted, that output error "Permission denied" is a little different than "No such file or directory", but I think that's where you need to be looking. HTH -- Tripp Lilley + Innovative Workflow Engineering, Inc. + (tripp AT iweinc DOT com) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "So perl is like a graceful swan, gliding across a lake. But underneath the water, there's these little legs, paddling like buggery." -- beable van polasm in http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=440381254 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com