Coreutils' Build Fails After Linking rm.exe

[Eric Blake]

On 02/15/2011 12:58 AM, L Anderson wrote:
> 3rd--I ran 'cygport coreutils-8.10-1 compile', which appeared to work
> ok until it exited with a "make error" as shown by the following last
> few lines of the output:

All those steps match what I do when building coreutils.

>   CCLD   pwd.exe
>   CCLD   readlink.exe
>   CCLD   rm.exe
>   CCLD   rmdir.exe <<<---up to and including rmdir.exe have been linked
> ./rm: ./rm: cannot execute binary file

Hmm.  Does your $PATH include '.' somewhere near the beginning?  That
may be the culprit; I _never_ run with '.' at the beginning (too much
risk of a trojan horse executable taking over); running with '.' at the
end or not in PATH at all would be safer.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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