Hi Keith, On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 07:33:31PM +0000, Keith Marshall wrote: > On 14/01/19 17:29, Philippe De Muyter wrote: > >> See this thread about this issue[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, > > Yes, I think so, but not quite as you appear to be assuming. > > > and in that case will a fixed mingwrt-5.2 package be released in the > > coming days ? > > I hope to do so, within the coming week. However, that alone will not > help you ... the buggy mkstemp() has infected the binutils-2.31.1-1, and > gcc-8.2.0-2 builds. It is the first of these which delivers the buggy > ar.exe, but both must be rebuilt; I hope to complete that tonight. Thank you for the explanation and for your work. > > > I am not feeling able to compile mingwrt easily myself :( > > It's not that difficult, (but does require MSYS, Cygwin, or other Unixy > build platform); in a build subdirectory of the top source directory: > > $ ../configure --prefix=/mingw && make && make install > > after cloning the git repository; however, right now, even that will not > fix it, until I push my current patch queue, (or you apply the patches > from the preceding mail threads). OK. So indeed once you're in a unix-like environment, it's not that difficult, but I won't duplicate your work :) Best regards Philippe -- Philippe De Muyter +32 2 6101532 Macq SA rue de l'Aeronef 2 B-1140 Bruxelles
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