Yes that did it. The problem was definitely caused by virus scan - McAfee. Not sure why, but excluding the folder from on-access scanner did not get rid of the error. Only by completely disabling Access Protection and On-Access Scanner in the McAfee console was I able to complete the configure script for ImageMagick on my Cygwin installation.
Thanks for the help and hope this will help others who encounter this problem. -----Original Message----- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Ken Brown Sent: Friday, October 14, 2016 3:23 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Errors using configure when building packages On 10/14/2016 1:46 PM, Sinkler, Wharton wrote: > I've got a new Cygwin installation on Win7, which has issues with configure, > the first step of building packages from source (I've seen this with > ImageMagick, libtiff and others so it's not specific to the package I'm > installing). > > It seems to sporadically be unable to remove a file 'conftest.exe' which is > compiled in the tests within configure. This shows up during configure as: > > rm: cannot remove 'conftest.exe': Device or resource busy > > The configure will then fail completely when this causes a critical test to > fail. > > I suspect that this might have something to do with slowness to release an > in-use file (the conftest.exe) in the Win7 operating system. I've searched > the archives and don't see this exact issue showing up in previous posts. > Have others experienced this problem? Is there a fix which will allow me to > complete building these packages? Do you have security software installed that might be interfering with Cygwin? Ken -- 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 -- 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
