Re: Crash fix on Windows/MinGW

[Noah Misch]

On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 01:04:41PM +0200, Eric PAIRE wrote:
> I have been facing a problem on Windows/MinGW with autoconf. The 
> configure generated script crashes when called via "config.status 
> --recheck":
> ../src/configure: config.log: Permission denied
> 
> The reason is that config.log cannot be truncated by configure because 
> config.status already opened it (and Windows forbids truncating an open 
> file). Here is the fix (tested on Windows/MinGW).

Thanks for the report and the patch.  It is remarkable that this has never come
up before.  You use the MinGW compilers; do you use the MSYS shell and tools to
run `configure', or something else?  What version?