Re: Crash fix on Windows/MinGW

[Eric PAIRE]

Hi Noah,

Yes, I do use Msys and MinGW, but right now with an old version (MinGW-3.1.0).
I have found some other problems (mostly around GCC for MingW), which fixes
I intend to report soon to GCC team; but I almost sure that these (although
very simple) will be less obvious to get accepted than this one.

BTW, I have (many) other problems with the ::blank:: in autotools paths for
Windows that I discussed some months ago with automake people. No solution
for now, so that I have forbidden this character in Windows paths for using
autotools (which seems to be a "real" problem for people used to Windows).

Thanks,
Eric

Noah Misch wrote:
> 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?