Hugh Conner writes:
>
> One of our users gets the following error message from the C compiler when he
> tries to compile even the simplest program.
>
> >
> > 52 : osiris:endian> cc -o endian endian.c
> > ld:
> > make_outbuf: cannot ftruncate(No such file or directory)
> >
>
> I get the same error if I try to compile in his directory. We are running the
> following OSF software
>
> DEC OSF/1 V3.2 (Rev. 214); Wed Nov 27 11:52:15 GMT 1996
> DEC OSF/1 V3.2 Worksystem Software (Rev. 214)
>
> The particular users home directory is on an SGI Indy machine running Irix 5.3
> so I suspect some sort of interaction problem between the 2 systems. Anyone
> come accross this error before and Can offer any help?
>
Thanks to the people who told me that this was a problem with the use of NFS v3
and that I should obtain various patches for this for both Irix and DU. After
getting the IRIX patches the problem appears to have been cured.
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Hugh M. Conner hmc_at_cee.hw.ac.uk
Tel: +44 131 451 3337
Received on Thu Jan 30 1997 - 10:47:40 NZDT