On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Gary Johnson wrote:
On 2011-03-23, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Gary Johnson wrote:
I built Vim 7.3.0 on my Cygwin system last August and thought it
could use an update, so I pulled and updated the latest changes from
the Mercurial repository, ran "make distclean" and
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-features=huge --without-x
--enable-gui=no
(one line) as I always do for Cygwin and got a bunch of error
messages before configure exited. I tried again with "make
distclean" and a simpler configure command that also tried to fix a
curses library problem reported by the previous run:
./configure --without-x --enable-gui=no --with-tlib=ncurses
I still got a lot of the same "Permission denied" errors.
These look like the kinds of errors one tends to get when doing a
`make install` as root (on noncygwin). My guess is that you ran
`make` or `make install` while running as Administrator.
I didn't get to either the 'make' or 'make install' steps. The errors
came from the './configure ...' step.
Right. The permissions problems could stem from `make distclean` not being
able to completely clear out the prior build.
If you're running `make distclean`, presumably you've built from that
same directory in the past. And, maybe the last time you successfully
built Vim (all the way through), you were (inadvertently?) running as
Administrator. Just something to watch for in general. But probably
not the issue, given:
I executed './configure ...' as the same user I always have.
Another source of weird permissions problems could be (re-)running the
Cygwin setup.exe (which could bump you up to Administrator). I didn't
note what Windows version you were on.
--
Best,
Ben
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