Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 16:08:16 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: "H.Merijn Brand" <h DOT m DOT brand AT hccnet DOT nl>
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Subject: Re: Gnu compiler for Perl
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On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, H.Merijn Brand wrote:

> > Does a simple "echo foo > /dev/null" fails as well?  How about 
> > "echo foo >> /dev/null"?
> > 
> > If it does, please write a short test program that does imilar things, 
> > and step into the I/O functions with a debugger.  We must understand 
> > what's wrong there to devise a solution or a work-around.
> 
> C:\Tmp> sh
> sh-2.03$ echo Help
> Help
> sh-2.03$ echo Help >/dev/null
> sh: /dev/null: Permission denied (EACCESS)
> sh-2.03$ echo Help >>/dev/null

So, what happens if you edit Configure and replace all ">" with ">>" when 
the target is /dev/null?  Does the script succeed to run then?