NIOS II: No such file or directory error

Hi,

Can anybody please help me with some basic installation issues I have with the NIOS II IDE.

I get the following error in all my NIOS II IDE builds:

make -s all includes

6 [main] sh 4356 fork: child 3020 - died waiting for longjmp before initialization, errno 11

cygpath: can't convert empty path

D:/altera/72/nios2eds/components/altera_hal/build/app_rules.mk:153: /components/altera_hal/build/gnu_rules.mk: No such file or directory

The file is there. The problem is that the make thinks that the path starts with /components... when in fact it starts with d:/altera...

Now the details:

There seems to be a problem with the environment that the setup created. The symptom here is that the path in app_rules that says:

include $(SOPC_KIT_NIOS2)/components/altera_hal/build/gnu_rules.mk

is being read as if the SOPC_KIT_NIOS2 environment variable is blank.

When I first installed the web edition of the tools 7.2 everything worked. However, once I rebooted the computer (no other change) these problems appeared. The installation was done after I cleaned out the previous 7.1 edition.

More history. When I first installed the Web Edition of the tools I had the same problem. As you can see I am forced to install in the D: drive. You're not going to believe this but I solved the problem by adding a TEMP and a TMP directory to D: and then everything worked. However, the directories are still there and the problems are all back. Don't ask me how I knew to try that.

Any ideas? suggestions?

If this is the wrong area of the forum please tell me where I should move the thread to.

My lasty problem was solved really swiftly in this forum so I am quite hopeful, depite the obvious frustration.

Thank you,

Eli