It looks like Tom is correct.
I added the directory tree to an exclude list of Microsoft Security
Essentials and
ran `configure` without any flags and it completed successfully this time.
Thank you both for your time and expertise,
Igal
On 1/18/2016 11:23 AM, Igal @ Lucee.org wrote:
> On 1/18/2016 11:09 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>>> The relevant portion of config.log seems to be this:
>> I do not think configure pays attention to mere warnings for this
>> type of test. The real problem here seems to be the "permission
>> denied" errors, which to me reek of broken Windows antivirus
>> software. (As far as I'm aware, the word "broken" is redundant in
>> that phrase.)
> Thank you both for looking into this. The only A/V-type software that
> I have running is the "Microsoft Security Essentials".
>>
>>> I'm a little confused as to why -Wno-cpp fixes any of that, though.
>> Most likely, it's pure chance that a retry worked. Or if it's
>> repeatable,
>> maybe no-cpp changes the compiler's file access patterns enough that
>> there's no longer a false trip of the AV check.
>>
>> Short answer is that I wonder how much of the OP's multiple problems
>> are being caused by AV bugs.
> I did not make any changes other than adding the compiler flags
> between those two runs (nor afterwards).
>
> The reason that I decided to try to add the -Wno-error flag was that I
> searched the net for the error message, and found this
> thread from 4 years ago:
> http://postgresql.nabble.com/Setting-Werror-in-CFLAGS-td5118384.html
> -- which showed
> a similar error message and a play of the compiler flags.
>
> I will try to run both forms again and report whether it is repeatable.
>
> Thanks again,
>
>
> Igal
>