Re: Bug in ar

[Peter Graves]

OK, it looks like it might be a permissions problem. Under
certain circumstances, the target file is read-only on disk.

Thanks for your help!

-Peter

>    Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 19:50:23 -0800
>    From: Peter Graves <address@hidden>
> 
>    I'm now very confused by the problem I reported this morning.
> 
>    > BFD: BFD internal error, aborting at ../../bfd/libbfd.c line 606 in 
> bfd_write_bigendian_4byte_int
>    > 
>    > BFD: Please report this bug.
> 
> You will get this error message if the disk is full, or if there is
> some other error writing to the disk.
> 
> ar is doing a bad job of error reporting.
> 
> Ian
>