Re: Problem after updating and reinstalling.

[marco atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>]

On 12/14/2012 5:17 AM, asallen08 wrote:
> I am currently taking intro to computer programming and my professor told me
> to post in this forum since he didn't know what my error message was. He
> told everyone in the class to update the Cygwin software by going to the
> website and clicking on the download link. I have read a lot of things on
> this site that I don't understand. Can some one please help me. I have
> programs that I need to compile and run for class.
>
> After I ran the install it popped up a new new shortcut on the desktop. So
> now I have two. The old one and the new one. When I clicked on the new one

in theory , you should have only one called "Cygwin Terminal"


To check the program and version, click on the icon, and on the terminal
window click on the "C>" drawing on the upper left corner,
click "Options.." and than "About"

Latest is mintty , version 1.1.2.

> and typed in gcc and the name of the program that I needed to compile it
> said: .c:0: fatal error: can't open /tmp/ccASZhsx.s for writing: No such
> file or directory

what is the output of " ls -l $(which gcc)" and "ls /" ?

> compilation terminated. Does anyone one now what this mean and how I can fix
> this error? According to my book it said to open up CMD and at the C:\ type
> PATH %PATH;c:\cygwin\bin.

obsolete suggestion. Don't use CMD, use instead "Cygwin Terminal" and 
surely is not a good idea to put cygwin\bin at the end of the PATH.
On bash (the standard command interpreter for cygwin) the "bin" is
already added to the PATH at its begin.

> So I closed Cygwin and opened up CMD and typed in
> the path re-open cygwin and still got the same message. When I type ls into
> Cygwin I can see my programs and my .c files but I can't compile any of
> them.
>
> The same thing happens when I open the old one as well.

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

specially

"Run cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out and include that file as an 
attachment in your report. Please do not compress or otherwise encode 
the output. Just attach it as a straight text file so that it can be 
easily viewed. "

Regards
Marco


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