From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 96514 invoked by alias); 17 Oct 2016 19:44:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 96371 invoked by uid 89); 17 Oct 2016 19:44:56 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*RU:!192.168.0.6!, Hx-spam-relays-external:!192.168.0.6!, H*r:ip*192.168.0.6 X-HELO: mail-it0-f50.google.com Received: from mail-it0-f50.google.com (HELO mail-it0-f50.google.com) (209.85.214.50) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 19:44:54 +0000 Received: by mail-it0-f50.google.com with SMTP id 139so53556249itm.1 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 12:44:54 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=JUIiUBkLxOuA8SJOIM7/HzQu1s/fCYMyfMxIP5xppL4=; b=OYtlosDNliVo+BkOt+fQBpgHOwloiKIhh28/f9wL/KgIWS9ILuRVzlRTiqY312y09w 13HIEFaIujl/xtDWkqkedGrvZ/OgTG8biGhM1EV8y8Wst2g620xA3gHZqy/0moD2x63s gmr+wELBTT8kRXzKoWTqwf0dovdxrOj/2XMuWc4gVOPVA5UWaFKjAn+kiNan4T7Z22iY Xx2wbHeWEavnaqhpDD+ty9khWV0TK8cEDRKtFdixmIks++MZEX57i1Y4arKb1ev2b3C1 6jjH3RBzLYvo0gopN3UcG/vQb9NBIVZpJDi3w80dZbiYlYuc/ziezihIC8qwAqfSHves JiEQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AA6/9RnIXi8TZPB+nmPIpnvCaNiRLtTlTrr0nWx9/o7oPA3a4Uv1lCXwxI3iBglWVZ0yxA== X-Received: by 10.36.98.72 with SMTP id d69mr1680423itc.118.1476733492755; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 12:44:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.6] (d27-96-48-76.nap.wideopenwest.com. [96.27.76.48]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id r130sm5792491itd.17.2016.10.17.12.44.51 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 17 Oct 2016 12:44:52 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Errors using configure when building packages To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <7daa34c2-b176-c802-d5ae-a87745a69830@cornell.edu> From: cyg Simple Message-ID: Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 20:20:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <7daa34c2-b176-c802-d5ae-a87745a69830@cornell.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-10/txt/msg00205.txt.bz2 On 10/14/2016 4:23 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > On 10/14/2016 1:46 PM, Sinkler, Wharton wrote: >> I've got a new Cygwin installation on Win7, which has issues with >> configure, the first step of building packages from source (I've seen >> this with ImageMagick, libtiff and others so it's not specific to the >> package I'm installing). >> >> It seems to sporadically be unable to remove a file 'conftest.exe' >> which is compiled in the tests within configure. This shows up during >> configure as: >> >> rm: cannot remove 'conftest.exe': Device or resource busy >> >> The configure will then fail completely when this causes a critical >> test to fail. >> >> I suspect that this might have something to do with slowness to >> release an in-use file (the conftest.exe) in the Win7 operating >> system. I've searched the archives and don't see this exact issue >> showing up in previous posts. Have others experienced this problem? >> Is there a fix which will allow me to complete building these packages? > > Do you have security software installed that might be interfering with > Cygwin? > This is often an issue of your security software having opened the conftest.exe for inspection and the configure script expects to delete it but cannot because it is now opened by another process. Exclude your working directory from the scan to resolve it. -- cyg Simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple