On 14/01/19 17:29, Philippe De Muyter wrote: >> See this thread about this issue[1]. >> https://osdn.net/projects/mingw/lists/archive/users/2019-January/000215.html > > I had already read it, hence my questions : is the ar.exe problem > related to the mkstemp problem, Yes, I think so, but not quite as you appear to be assuming. > and in that case will a fixed mingwrt-5.2 package be released in the > coming days ? I hope to do so, within the coming week. However, that alone will not help you ... the buggy mkstemp() has infected the binutils-2.31.1-1, and gcc-8.2.0-2 builds. It is the first of these which delivers the buggy ar.exe, but both must be rebuilt; I hope to complete that tonight. > I am not feeling able to compile mingwrt easily myself :( It's not that difficult, (but does require MSYS, Cygwin, or other Unixy build platform); in a build subdirectory of the top source directory: $ ../configure --prefix=/mingw && make && make install after cloning the git repository; however, right now, even that will not fix it, until I push my current patch queue, (or you apply the patches from the preceding mail threads). -- Regards, Keith. Public key available from keys.gnupg.net Key fingerprint: C19E C018 1547 DE50 E1D4 8F53 C0AD 36C6 347E 5A3F -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <https://lists.osdn.me/mailman/archives/mingw-users/attachments/20190114/6e6a98f0/attachment.sig>