Coreutils' Build Fails After Linking rm.exe

[L Anderson]

Eric Blake wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I'm afraid so :-(.  I finally figured it out about an hour ago. 
Thanks for your confirming reply! I have fixed it and have now 
successfully build coreutils--yea!

Regards,

LA


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