[Ecls-list] What would be the cause of "Error when copying file from"?

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Seth Burleigh <seth at tewebs.com> writes:

> Ive had this error a tons of times. (the cant copy
> from /tmp/somerandomname to /tmp/somerandomname)
>
> It usually means either:
> (a) it cant find a library that you linked the compiled fas with 
> (b) the compiled fas uses an unreferenced symbol in the library you
> linked with (it cant find it)
> (c) the library you linked the compiled fas with cant find other
> libraries it links to.
>
> i believe in this case, if i remember correctly, the problem is number
> (b) (look on the mailing list, i think i pointed out somewhere that ecl
> and usocket dont work on a platform, windows i guess)
>
> I suspect that when ecl is able to use popen or similar to get the
> actual error output things will be much easier to debug. Starting ecl
> from the command line is the only way i know of to see errors in
> compilation and you wont even be able to see errors like the copy above
> since those happen when you attempt to load the fas not when compiling.

Interesting hints.  Thank you.

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