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Re: .exe handling change in fileutils-4.1-2
- From: "Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw at wasabisystems dot com>
- To: Doru Carastan <doru dot carastan at mvista dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: 14 Nov 2003 13:45:23 -0500
- Subject: Re: .exe handling change in fileutils-4.1-2
- Organization: Wasabi Systems, Inc.
- References: <3FB520C6.5030807@mvista.com>
Doru Carastan <doru.carastan@mvista.com> writes:
> In reply to: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-11/msg00478.html
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> It is normal to see "touch foo.exe; cp foo bar" fail. You just created
> foo.exe, which is definitely not foo. Check with "ls -l".
Yes, I'm aware that foo.exe is not foo, but fileutils-4.1-1 contained
code which special-cased this situation, IMO very usefully. What I
would like to see is a ChangeLog entry or CVS log message or something
that corresponds to and explains the removal of that code.
> The current versions of autoconf and automake define and use
> EXEEXT=.exe. Check your Makefile.am or Makefile.in files and add
> $(EXEEXT) to all commands that involve executables.
The build system in question is not based on autoconf/automake.
- Nathan
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