Re: getwd: read error in ..

[Barry Margolin <barmar@bbnplanet.com>]

In article <85o1js$esk$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,  <mooreron@my-deja.com> wrote:
>I need to make a trivial modification to existing configured simulation
>software.  It was built under Rational VADS 623.53.3 on IRIX 5.3.  We
>have since upgraded our OS to IRIX 6.5.5 and installed VADS 623.53.7 to
>make this change.  However, when I issue the "a.make" command, it
>results in the error message "a.make: getwd: read error in .." being
>issued prior to compilation.  I tried to shorten the file pathname of
>the Ada source code and was able to compile the code.  But, I still get
>the message "a.ld fatal: getwd: read error in .." during link time.  It
>appears to me that some file pathname environment variable may need to
>be increased.  Is that the case and, if so, which one(s)?

It appears to me that you have a permissions problem, not an environment
variable problem -- the pwd command is failing because it can't read one of
the ancestor directories.

If you can't find an ancestor directory that's lacking read and execute
permissions, check the permissions on the underlying mount points -- these
sometimes bleed through (although I thought this was only on Suns).

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