Ralf Wildenhues Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de writes:
Hi Roberto,
- Roberto Bagnara wrote on Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 06:46:40PM CEST:
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
You said you searched for this already: are all systems this happens on on win32? Maybe some unrelated process keeps some file open or prevents writing to some file? (just another wild guess though)
No, these seemed to be more or less system independent: Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Cygwin, ... I googled for "conftest.c: No such file".
I now did that, too. First thing: I find only one reference to "conftest.cc: No such file" and while there are numerous such with conftest.c, reasons for failure are usually:
I don't know if this is ueful; but I came across a similar issue some months ago with a configure script for Fortran, where conftest.f was vanishing. The culprit turned out to be an errant trap which was being triggered elsewhere, which specifically deleted conftest.*, but somehow didn't stop the configure script proceeding.
The ultimate cause turned out to be a buggy compiler on the platform in question - unfortunately I can't remember precisely the details of how that resulted in the odd behaviour; but I do remember it being very difficult to find, until I discovered the trap in question.