gcc: installation problem, cannot exec 'collect2.exe': Resource temporarily unavailable

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 12/08/2009 08:51 PM, Jonathan Schell wrote:
> With one particular compilation, I'm getting this error.  From reading around,
> I'm pretty sure that it's due to an excessively long command string, as
> there's a lot of include paths being added to the gcc command with the -I
> option.  However, I had fixed this problem previously on an older computer
> somehow, but I've lost the website where I found the solution.  It was
> something to do with a flag that is set when compiling gcc so that it would
> ignore the error, I think.  It's not due to my computer being low on memory or
> resources or anything like that.  I can't modify the makefile as this is another
> department's program and I know it was fixable by changing the tools
> somehow.  If anyone could point me to any suggestion along these lines I'd
> appreciate it.

Sounds like something that the upcoming Cygwin 1.7 release could resolve -
<http://cygwin.com/#beta-test>

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