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

Philippe De Muyter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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

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