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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:58:41 +0200
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Hi,

Dave Korn schrieb:
> Clemens Arth wrote:
> 
>> llvm-ar: can't rename 'c:/cygwin/admin/funnylibrary.a-dofeyJ' as
>> 'c:/cygwin/admin/funnylibrary.a' Permission denied
> 
>   Failure of rename-into-place is almost always caused by an AV program (or
> similar) that opens handles to your files and holds them open when your
> program was expecting nothing to have them open.  Take a browse at the FAQ entry:
> 
>     http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda

thanks for the hint. There is no such software installed on the PC, but 
as it is also stated in the FAQ, problems might still occur from buggy 
programs that cause system errors.

> 
>> The second interesting thing is that although everything runs inside the
>> cygwin shell, the file names in the error report are in windows format
>> (as you can see above). Might this cause some problems, and why does
>> this happen?
> 
>   Because you are running a non-Cygwin version of 'ar', using a script that
> translates filenames for you automatically.  So it is in fact rather likely
> that this isn't a cygwin problem at all, even though you happen to see it when
> you launch the programs from a cygwin shell.
> 

This might actually be true. Probably I should simply switch to some 
other Windows version...

Regards
Clemens

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