[Gambas-user] gba3 -> Invalid cross-device link

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 31/03/2013 04:06, Benoît Minisini a écrit :
> Le 31/03/2013 04:03, Benoît Minisini a écrit :
>> Le 27/03/2013 19:32, Tobias Boege a écrit :
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I try to create a Gambas executable (from within the IDE but that
>>> doesn't
>>> seem to be relevant here). The project directory lies on another hard
>>> drive
>>> partition than the executable's target directory. This causes gba3 to
>>> fail
>>> with:
>>>
>>> gba: ERROR: Cannot make executable: Cannot create executable: Invalid
>>> cross-device link
>>> Project.MakeExecutable.2828
>>>
>>> There seems to be a hardlink involved and so I ask: is it really
>>> necessary
>>> to hardlink? Wouldn't a symlink do it, too?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Tobi
>>>
>>
>> There is no hardlink used anywhere in Gambas. That's a strange error! I
>> will investigate...
>>
>
> OK. This error has nothing to do with hardlinks. It's just that the
> executable is created inside a temporary file, and that temporay file is
> then moved (i.e. renamed), which does not work if the target directory
> is on a different device than the temporary directory.
>

It should be fixed in revision #5604.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini