At 01:18 PM 3/18/2002, Peter Buckley wrote: >I am hoping some people can give me ideas on how to debug a problem I am having with >rm when invoked from cygwin's make.exe, which is using sh as its shell. Basically, >when I call "rm -r -f" from a makefile, it gives me errors about "Permission Denied, >Directory Not Empty". This is the same error that I get when I try to manually rm a >directory when I have a separate shell cd'd there. I think that somehow make or sh >are cd'ed into the directory I am trying to rm, so it cannot be removed. > >I am a newbie at debugging, so I am looking for specific ideas to try to narrow down >the problem to one particular thing; i.e. sh, make, rm, or cygwin1.dll. I have tried >replacing rm and the cygwin1.dll with different versions, but I get the same error. I >also tried replacing sh with bash, same error. I plan on trying different versions of >make and sh, but if anyone can suggest what to strace or which files I can plug >printfs into, I would really appreciate it.
Have you tried creating the smallest makefile that will reproduce the problem and then running that under strace? Make sure nothing else (not even a Windows process) has the directory open. Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
