X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com
X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.9 required=5.0	tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,TW_YG
X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
Message-ID: <50CAD4E3.5020401@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:27:31 +0100
From: marco atzeri <marco DOT atzeri AT gmail DOT com>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Problem after updating and reinstalling.
References: <1355458667667-94907 DOT post AT n5 DOT nabble DOT com>
In-Reply-To: <1355458667667-94907.post@n5.nabble.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-IsSubscribed: yes
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

On 12/14/2012 5:17 AM, asallen08 wrote:
> I am currently taking intro to computer programming and my professor told me
> to post in this forum since he didn't know what my error message was. He
> told everyone in the class to update the Cygwin software by going to the
> website and clicking on the download link. I have read a lot of things on
> this site that I don't understand. Can some one please help me. I have
> programs that I need to compile and run for class.
>
> After I ran the install it popped up a new new shortcut on the desktop. So
> now I have two. The old one and the new one. When I clicked on the new one

in theory , you should have only one called "Cygwin Terminal"


To check the program and version, click on the icon, and on the terminal
window click on the "C>" drawing on the upper left corner,
click "Options.." and than "About"

Latest is mintty , version 1.1.2.

> and typed in gcc and the name of the program that I needed to compile it
> said: .c:0: fatal error: can't open /tmp/ccASZhsx.s for writing: No such
> file or directory

what is the output of " ls -l $(which gcc)" and "ls /" ?

> compilation terminated. Does anyone one now what this mean and how I can fix
> this error? According to my book it said to open up CMD and at the C:\ type
> PATH %PATH;c:\cygwin\bin.

obsolete suggestion. Don't use CMD, use instead "Cygwin Terminal" and 
surely is not a good idea to put cygwin\bin at the end of the PATH.
On bash (the standard command interpreter for cygwin) the "bin" is
already added to the PATH at its begin.

> So I closed Cygwin and opened up CMD and typed in
> the path re-open cygwin and still got the same message. When I type ls into
> Cygwin I can see my programs and my .c files but I can't compile any of
> them.
>
> The same thing happens when I open the old one as well.
>

please follow
> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

specially

"Run cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out and include that file as an 
attachment in your report. Please do not compress or otherwise encode 
the output. Just attach it as a straight text file so that it can be 
easily viewed. "

Regards
Marco


--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple