Re: We can not run gnulib-tool in the MinGW.

[Collin Funk]

Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> writes:

>> But only /tmp folder can be run, or “not overwriting destination directory”
>> error still occurs, why?
>
> Permission problems on Windows are hard to understand: The permissions
> depend not only on the owner and permissions of the particular directory,
> but also of all the ancestor directories of that directory.

I don't think this is a permission issue. That error is expected when
passed a directory that already exists:

    $ ./gnulib-tool --create-testdir --dir=/tmp/my-testdir terminfo

If the option passed to '--dir' exists then there will be an error.
Using that example:

    $ gnulib-tool --create-testdir --dir=/tmp/my-testdir terminfo
    $ gnulib-tool --create-testdir --dir=/tmp/my-testdir terminfo
    /home/collin/.local/src/gnulib/gnulib-tool.py: *** not overwriting 
destination directory: /tmp/my-testdir
    /home/collin/.local/src/gnulib/gnulib-tool.py: *** Stop.

This was a change we agreed upon a while ago since running
--create-testdir on an already existing testdir would break things,
IIRC.

> I'd suggest to try Cygwin or WSL. They emulate a POSIX environment much
> better than MSYS2; therefore you are much more likely to have positive
> experiences with GNU software in these two environments.

I have had good experiences with Cygwin, +1.

Collin