Re: ar.exe: could not create temporary file whilst writing archive: no more archived files

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 <[email protected]> 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
>
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