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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To: "Jamil Alkadir" <jamil_alkadir AT hotmail DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: libiconv on WinXP Cygwin
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 10:24:45 +0100
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Jamil Alkadir wrote:
> I am now trying to compile libiconv-1.9.1

Why not use the pre-existing libiconv-1.9.1 cygwin package, as installable from setup.exe?


> /usr/bin/install: cannot remove `/usr/lib/../bin/cygiconv-2.dll': Permission
> denied

/usr/bin/install uses the libiconv DLL, hence when install is running, the DLL is in use and cannot be overwritten.


Max.


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