Re: [Mingw-users] Problem bootstraping in msys

[John B. <joh...@ho...>]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:23:25 -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
> Christian Kröger wrote:
> > Actually I don't really know what the problem is, the situation is the
> > following, I want to bootstrap something in the MSYS shell, but there is
> > an error due to a /tmp directory not beeing empty.
> > I get the following output:
> >
> >
> > $ ./bootstrap
> > Removing old files...
> > mkdir: cannot create directory `config': File exists
> > aclocal -I config
> > ' is already registered with AC_CONFIG_FILES.
> > /mingw/src/autoconf/26/autoconf-2.67/lib/autoconf/status.m4:290:
> > AC_CONFIG_FILES
> > is expanded from...
> > configure.ac:93: the top level
> > /bin/m4: cannot remove temporary directory /tmp/m4-i5yTtW: Directory not
> > empty
> > autom4te-2.67: /bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
> > aclocal-1.11: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
> >
>
> Probably a timing issue where the files in the directory have yet to be
> removed. It is a Windows inherent issue and occurs differently for
> different disk devices. I had similar issues with another package when
> configuring on the local C:\ drive and moved the package to a USB hard
> drive and the symptoms went away.
>
> --
> Earnie

In that case, he can try disabling the write cache on his hard drive.
By default, Windows enables write caching for hard drives and
disables it for removable drives.

Regards,
Alias John Brown.