I have not been able to compile Wireshark at all, not once since mid
December. The problem seems to lie in the copying of the help\faq.txt file
to FAQ. This copy operation (cp --preserve help\faq.txt FAQ) somehow sets
different security permissions than that of the help\faq.txt file.

The file faq.txt located in the directory help has the file attributes "A"
(archive bit) and the approproate security permissions set for
Administrators, Power Users, System and Users.
However once "cp --preserve help\faq.txt FAQ" has executed, the FAQ file has
the file attributes "AR" (read only) and the security permissions are set
for Everyone (with special permissions), my user account (with special
permissions) and Users (with special permissions). These special permissions
do actively deny read access to the FAQ file.

This then generates a problem with the build process since once the file has
been copied to the Wireshark root directory as FAQ, the build process
continues with trying to copy it to the wireshark-gtk2 directory using
xcopy. Since the FAQ file does not have any read permission, this fails and
the build process stops. When I try to compile again from state then instead
the "cp --preserve..." command fails since it is not allowed to copy over
the FAQ file.


Is there anyone that has had a similar problem and might be able to provide
a solution to this?


Happy new year!

Best regards, Peter
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