On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 01:04:41PM +0200, Eric PAIRE wrote: > I have been facing a problem on Windows/MinGW with autoconf. The > configure generated script crashes when called via "config.status > --recheck": > ../src/configure: config.log: Permission denied > > The reason is that config.log cannot be truncated by configure because > config.status already opened it (and Windows forbids truncating an open > file). Here is the fix (tested on Windows/MinGW).
Thanks for the report and the patch. It is remarkable that this has never come up before. You use the MinGW compilers; do you use the MSYS shell and tools to run `configure', or something else? What version?
