Re: [feature/native-comp] breakage on build

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2021 15:01:53 +0000
> From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Actually, the error message appears to make from (and only from) 
> make-temp-file-internal.
> 
> comp.c is nearly the only think that calls that function from c, so I'd 
> guess that this is the culprit. I wonder if the windows drive letters 
> ("c:/msys64") use magic file handling.
> 
> Certainly
> 
> (make-temp-file-internal "c:/fred" nil "suf" nil)
> 
> raises the same error on linux (am afraid all my windows machines are 
> inaccessible at the moment).

The above works on my Windows machine.

On GNU/Linux the name "c:/fred" is relative, so the file will be
created under the Emacs working directory.

What kind of failure do you see when you invoke the above?