Empty include file on samba share

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Wed Jan 7 18:05:00 GMT 2009


Fabian Cenedese wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have a problem that may be cygwin or not. I'll just ask here if anybody knows
> something (or to show me some better place to go to).
> 
> We use a quite old cross-gcc (2.95.2), built with cygwin and running on various
> windows (since NT on to vista). The currently used cygwin is version
> 1.5.19-cr-0x5ef, but we have also worked with other versions. We have
> some projects that are C++ with header files and can be compiled with
> no problems on a local drive.
> 
> However if the whole C++ project is moved from the local drive to a
> share (samba, probably also windows) the compilation may fail with
> various errors. The main problem seems to be that include files are not
> read properly. They are found (gcc emits an error if the name is wrong)
> but the content seems not to be read. Even if such a problematic
> header file contains crap it is not mentioned by gcc. To make things
> worse is that on different computers the compilation may fail differently
> or even work without problems.
> 
> I don't know if there's anything I could change in cygwin to improve
> this (except updating, but I'd like to hear first, if this is known).
> 
> Has anybody ever experienced something similar? Or an idea what I
> could look into (from the cygwin side)? I have already asked on the
> gcc mailinglist, but it was unknown so far.

We're missing some information about your system configuration.  Please
read the problem reporting guidelines found at the link below, paying
particular attention to the part about the cygcheck output.  A STC might
also be warranted.

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Absent the above, my WAG is that you need to add 'smbntsec' to your
CYGWIN environment variable.

<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html>

Exit all Cygwin processes/services for good measure.

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