I agree with Phillippe - this is definitely worthy of a patch - it's breaking all over the place. I put this question out a couple of weeks ago and got no responses. I'm glad we've figured out the root cause, but we should not ignore it like it's nothing. There's about a 10% chance you'll get past this issue in a given build that uses ar.exe. That is to say - 1 in 10 builds succeeds due to a lucky temp file name. John On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 10:29 AM Philippe De Muyter <phdm****@macq*****> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 12:11:56PM -0500, Earnie wrote: > > On 1/14/2019 3:53 AM, Philippe De Muyter wrote: > >> Hello, > >> I am a first time user of mingw (in order to compile for ms-windows a > >> package originally written for gnu/linux). So I downloaded the current > >> version of mingw, but using it always fails with : > >> "C:\MinGW\bin\ar.exe: could not create temporary file whilst writing > >> archive: no more archived files" > >> Looking at the archives of the mailing list, I have seen > >> - that I am not the only one having that problem > >> - that it is maybe related to a mkstemp problem introduced in > mingwrt-5.2 > >> Now my question(s) : > >> - How can I install an older version (of mingwrt-5.2, or of the whole > >> mingw installation) ? > >> - Alternatively, will a fixed mingwrt-5.2 package be released in the > >> coming days ? > > > > See this thread about this issue[1]. > > > > [1] > > > https://osdn.net/projects/mingw/lists/archive/users/2019-January/000215.html > > I had already read it, hence my questions : is the ar.exe problem related > to the mkstemp problem, and in that case will a fixed mingwrt-5.2 package > be released in the coming days ? > > I am not feeling able to compile mingwrt easily myself :( > > Philippe > > _______________________________________________ > MinGW-Users mailing list > MinGW****@lists***** > > This list observes the Etiquette found at > http://www.mingw.org/Mailing_Lists. > We ask that you be polite and do the same. Disregard for the list > etiquette may cause your account to be moderated. > > _______________________________________________ > You may change your MinGW Account Options or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.osdn.me/mailman/listinfo/mingw-users > Also: mailto:mingw****@lists*****?subject=unsubscribe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.osdn.me/mailman/archives/mingw-users/attachments/20190114/f2422822/attachment.html>
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