[cfe-users] Adding linker flag `-save-temps` resolves the clang-8 error: "unable to make temporary file"

[David Blaikie via cfe-users]

Looks like it writes the files to the current directory - do you have
permission to access the current directory?

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 6:28 AM Danijel DOMAZET via cfe-users
<cfe-users at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
> Hi clang users,
> I am using Windows10 + Cygwin + Eclipse +  LLVM toolchain to build a C/C++
> project.
>
> The files compile fine, but linking with `clang++` fails with multiple
> `error: unable to make temporary file: No such file or directory`.
>
>     clang++ -o test "source1.bc" "source2.bc" "source3.bc"
>     clang-8: error: unable to make temporary file: No such file or directory
>     clang-8: error: unable to make temporary file: No such file or directory
>     clang-8: error: unable to make temporary file: No such file or directory
>
> Linker generates one error per each object file.
>
> However, when I add the `-save-temps` option to linker, it works OK.
>
> I am launching Eclipse.exe from within Cygwin. I have tried to set TMP,
> TEMP to /temp, /temp/, /cygdrive/c/temp, etc, but nothing worked.
>
> What could be the problem?
>
> Thanks,
> Danijel Domazet
>
>
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