RE: [ROOT] rootcint crashes with access violation on Windows

From: Pere Mato Vila (Pere.Mato@cern.ch)
Date: Mon Jul 28 2003 - 17:15:20 MEST 

 Thanks Philippe. 
 I think I understand.  I have write access to H:\ and not to E:\ in my
case. 
 Nevertheless this is a problem for us when we build the releases in the
release area in AFS. Would it be better to use %TEMP% or %TMP% instead
of the current drive letter for creating temporary files?
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philippe Canal [mailto:pcanal@fnal.gov] 
> Sent: 28 July 2003 17:04
> To: Pere Mato Vila; Roottalk
> Subject: RE: [ROOT] rootcint crashes with access violation on Windows
> 
> 
> Hi Pere,
> 
> What happens is that tmpnam is used to generate a temporary 
> file name.  For some reasons and windows it return 
> \something. which means that it is in the root directory of 
> the current drive. It also happens that you do not have write 
> access to this root directory.
> 
> Cheers,
> Philippe.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch 
> [mailto:owner-roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch]On Behalf Of Pere Mato Vila
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 9:28 AM
> To: Roottalk
> Subject: [ROOT] rootcint crashes with access violation on Windows
> 
> 
> Dear rooters,
> 
>   I have had crashes of rootcint time to time but today I was 
> able to reproduce it just by changing the current directory. 
> I am using version v3.05.06 on windows.
> 
> E:\cern.ch\user\m\mato\w0\GAUDI_v12r1\GaudiRootDb\v9r2\dict> 
> rootcint -f ..\dict\TBlobDict.cpp -c .. \src\TBlob.h ..\src\LinkDef.h
> Error: rootcint: failed to open \s1gc. in main
> And it pops-up a window saying: The instruction 
> at"0x7c014432" referenced memory at "0x0000000C". The memory 
> could not be "read"
> 
> If I change my current directory using another drive letter 
> but pointing to the exact same place in the remote file 
> system (AFS) the command works and produces the required files.
> 
> H:\w0\GAUDI_v12r1\GaudiRootDb\v9r2\cmt> rootcint -f 
> ..\dict\TBlobDict.cpp -c ..\src\TBlob.h ..\src\L inkDef.h
> 
>   The failing execution produces the good TBlobDict.h but the 
> TBlobDict.cpp contains only the CINT part and not the ROOT part.
> 
>   The only difference between the two executions is the 
> length of the current directory path as far I can see.
> 
> 
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