Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 11:45:11 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: 1.5.17: problem building GNU screen Message-ID: <20050618154511.GB23351@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 07:10:08AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: >> I found a problem building GNU screen on cygwin 1.5.17. >> Invoking ./configure leads to produce below error message. >> >>>rm: cannot remove `conftext.exe': Permission denied. > >IIRC I encountered this problem during the test for a broken FIFO >implementation. As it turns out, Cygwin's FIFO implementation is >broken (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-04/msg00163.html), but >the test in configure doesn't detect this. So, my solution was just to >remove this test from the configure script and set fifo= . This also >solved the leftover process problem. Try applying the attached patch, >and rerunning configure. The fifo implementation has improved since that time however: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2005-04/msg00035.html IMO, the posted check for fifos is flawed in that it assumes that writing to a fifo will not block if there is no reader on the fifo. That's not true for cygwin. cgf -- 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/