From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Coreutils' Build Fails After Linking rm.exe
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:19:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D5A9978.3020903@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D5A321C.4020608@member.fsf.org>
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On 02/15/2011 12:58 AM, L Anderson wrote:
> 3rd--I ran 'cygport coreutils-8.10-1 compile', which appeared to work
> ok until it exited with a "make error" as shown by the following last
> few lines of the output:
All those steps match what I do when building coreutils.
> CCLD pwd.exe
> CCLD readlink.exe
> CCLD rm.exe
> CCLD rmdir.exe <<<---up to and including rmdir.exe have been linked
> ./rm: ./rm: cannot execute binary file
Hmm. Does your $PATH include '.' somewhere near the beginning? That
may be the culprit; I _never_ run with '.' at the beginning (too much
risk of a trojan horse executable taking over); running with '.' at the
end or not in PATH at all would be safer.
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Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-15 7:58 L Anderson
2011-02-15 15:19 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2011-02-15 15:33 ` L Anderson
2011-02-15 19:52 ` Karl M
2011-02-15 15:26 ` Coreutils' Build Fails After Linking rm.exe--Solved L Anderson
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