[Mingw-msys] Building ImageMagick - "Permission Denied" error while linking

[Kurt N. <KNo...@li...>]

Hello all,

I'm having trouble compiling ImageMagick under MSYS/MingW, and I've
been trying to find the problem, with no luck so far.  I know that
somebody else had a similar problem on the list earlier, but I've not
been able to apply the same fix with any luck.

Here is the error that I'm getting:

make[1]: Entering directory
`/local/code_stuff/ImageMagick-5.5.7/utilities'
/bin/sh ../libtool --silent --mode=link gcc  -g -O2 -Wall  -L /usr/lib
-o composite.exe -L /usr/lib composite.o ../magick/libMagick.la  
c:\msys\1.0\mingw\bin\..\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.4.2\..\..\..\..\mingw32\bin\ld.exe:
C:/msys/1.0/lib: No such file: Permission denied
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [composite.exe] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/local/code_stuff/ImageMagick-5.5.7/utilities'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

As far as I can tell, there shouldn't be any problems with passing the
"-L /usr/lib" to the linker.  If I omit these lines, it gives an error
that it can't locate the library files needed.

I'm coming to the end of my rope here, and need to get this code
compiling again.  If anybody has any help or suggestions, I'd love to
hear them.  Please let me know if there is any other info that I can
provide that would be useful.

-Kurt