Re: [Mingw-users] help to compile gmp-4.2.2

[Eduardo Mendes <emammendes@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Eduardo Mendes wrote:
>
> > ./libtool: line 6426: /bin/install: Permission denied
>
> This is another Vista feature. UAC special-cases programs by name.
> Yes, it's that dumb. It thinks programs named like 'install' or 'setup'
> or 'update' are special because they are likely to be the name of an exe
> that you might run to install a new program, and these generally need to
> be run with elevated privileges since they tend to want to write into
> the Program Files or the system hive, which are typically off limits to
> the restricted/regular user.
>
> Anyway, to make a long story short you need to create some manifests
> that tell Vista that it doesn't need to elevate for these binaries, but
> to run as the invoker. In Cygwin we have had to do this for
> /bin/install-info, /bin/install, and /bin/patch. You can read about it
> in this thread:
> <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-12/threads.html#00518>
>
> Brian
>

In case, it was easy - I run msys using "Run as administrator".  That took care of the problem.
 
Many thanks
 
Ed.
 
PS.  As for installing cygwin, that is another story - The installation process hangs at some post-install file.
 
 

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