Strange configure behavior on Win 2K

"Kevin Myers" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.gimp.windows.devel
Message-ID <053701c27a6b$60aaf0a0$66c8a8c0@gusher>
Hello,

In my continuing efforts to learn how to build the gimp under Windows, I
have come across what seems to be a really strange problem with configure,
or possibly with the underlying MinGW version of the mv program that it is
using.  When you run configure, it creates and also executes a config.status
script, which is the part that actually goes about creating Makefiles, etc.
While create.status is being executed, I am receiving seemingly random
permission errors on the files that it is attempting to create.  It is NOT
the same files every time, and I do NOT have any other significant processes
running that could be accessing these files (no other configure or make
scripts, no backups, no anti-virus scanners, etc.).  This is a single user
machine that has been recently set up from scratch, so I am fairly confident
that I have very good control and knowledge over the processes that are
running.  There is NOTHING running that should be interfering with
config.status creating these files.  Below is a typical excerpt from the
on-screen messages while config.status is running.  Does anyone have ANY
idea what could be causing these problems???  Thanks.

s/KAM


Note the "mv: cannot stat <filename>': Permission denied" messages below:

configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating gimp-1.2.1
config.status: creating gimprc
config.status: creating gimprc_user
config.status: creating gimprc-1.2.5
config.status: creating gimptool-1.2
config.status: creating gimptool-1.2.1
config.status: creating gimp-remote-1.2.1
config.status: creating gimp.spec
config.status: creating gimp-zip
config.status: creating gimptool-win32.c
config.status: creating libgimp/gimpfeatures.h
config.status: creating libgimp/Makefile
config.status: creating libgimp/makefile.mingw
config.status: creating app/Makefile
config.status: creating app/makefile.mingw
mv: cannot stat `app/makefile.mingw': Permission denied
config.status: creating app/gimp.rc
config.status: creating plug-ins/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/makefile.mingw
config.status: creating plug-ins/perl/config.pl
config.status: creating plug-ins/libgck/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/libgck/gck/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/dbbrowser/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/script-fu/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/script-fu/scripts/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/webbrowser/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/xjt/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/FractalExplorer/Makefile
config.status: creating
plug-ins/FractalExplorer/fractalexplorer-examples/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/Lighting/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/MapObject/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/bmp/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/common/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/faxg3/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/fits/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/flame/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/fp/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/gap/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/gdyntext/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/gfig/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/gfig/gfig-examples/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/gflare/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/gflare/gflares/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/gfli/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/gimpressionist/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/gimpressionist/Brushes/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/gimpressionist/Paper/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/gimpressionist/Presets/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/helpbrowser/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/ifscompose/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/imagemap/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/maze/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/mosaic/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/pagecurl/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/print/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/rcm/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/sel2path/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/sgi/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/twain/Makefile
config.status: creating plug-ins/winsnap/Makefile
config.status: creating modules/Makefile
config.status: creating modules/makefile.mingw
mv: cannot stat `modules/makefile.mingw': Permission denied
config.status: creating devel-docs/Makefile
mv: cannot stat `devel-docs/Makefile': Permission denied
config.status: creating devel-docs/libgimp/Makefile
mv: cannot stat `devel-docs/libgimp/Makefile': Permission denied
config.status: creating devel-docs/pdb/Makefile
mv: cannot stat `devel-docs/pdb/Makefile': Permission denied
config.status: creating data/Makefile
mv: cannot stat `data/Makefile': Permission denied
config.status: creating data/brushes/Makefile
mv: cannot stat `data/brushes/Makefile': Permission denied
config.status: creating data/gradients/Makefile
mv: cannot stat `data/gradients/Makefile': Permission denied
config.status: creating data/palettes/Makefile
mv: cannot stat `data/palettes/Makefile': Permission denied
config.status: creating data/patterns/Makefile
mv: cannot stat `data/patterns/Makefile': Permission denied
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating build/Makefile
config.status: creating build/win32/Makefile
config.status: creating build/win32/dirent/Makefile
config.status: creating po/Makefile.in
config.status: creating po-libgimp/Makefile.in
config.status: creating plug-ins/perl/po/Makefile.in
config.status: creating po-plug-ins/Makefile.in
config.status: creating po-script-fu/Makefile.in
config.status: creating intl/Makefile
config.status: creating tools/Makefile
config.status: creating tools/authorsgen/Makefile
config.status: creating tools/pdbgen/Makefile
config.status: creating tips/Makefile
config.status: creating help/Makefile
config.status: creating help/C/Makefile
config.status: creating help/C/channels/Makefile
config.status: creating help/C/dialogs/Makefile
config.status: creating help/C/dialogs/channels/Makefile
config.status: creating help/C/dialogs/color_selectors/Makefile
config.status: creating help/C/dialogs/gradient_editor/Makefile
config.status: creating help/C/dialogs/layers/Makefile
config.status: creating help/C/dialogs/palette_editor/Makefile
config.status: creating help/C/dialogs/paths/Makefile
config.status: creating help/C/dialogs/preferences/Makefile
config.status: creating help/C/file/Makefile
config.status: creating help/C/filters/Makefile
config.status: creating help/C/image/Makefile
config.status: creating help/C/image/edit/Makefile
config.status: creating help/C/image/image/Makefile
config.status: creating help/C/image/image/colors/Makefile
config.status: creating help/C/image/image/colors/auto/Makefile
config.status: creating help/C/image/image/mode/Makefile
config.status: creating help/C/image/image/transforms/Makefile
config.status: creating help/C/image/select/Makefile
config.status: creating help/C/image/view/Makefile
config.status: creating help/C/images/Makefile
config.status: creating help/C/images/examples/Makefile
config.status: creating help/C/images/glossary/Makefile
config.status: creating help/C/images/tools/Makefile
config.status: creating help/C/layers/Makefile
config.status: creating help/C/layers/stack/Makefile
config.status: creating help/C/open/Makefile
config.status: creating help/C/paths/Makefile
config.status: creating help/C/save/Makefile
config.status: creating help/C/stylesheet-images/Makefile
config.status: creating help/C/toolbox/Makefile
config.status: creating help/C/toolbox/help/Makefile
config.status: creating help/C/tools/Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing default-1 commands
config.status: executing default commands
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