B19.1: make install scripts fail - trying to cp <exec> instead of <exec.exe>

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Hello!
 
   My name is Konstantin Terletskiy. I 
used CYGWIN Beta 19.1 a lot to port various UNIX utilities on NT. In most cases 
everything is OK, but most of the products have 'make install' step to install 
product to correct directories. Once tool has been built, it definitely has new 
<exec.exe> files to be installed. But makefile usually fails to do it 
reporting <exec>: No such file or directory. That's because makefile was 
written for pure UNIX, where executive file lloks like <exec>. But 
actually <exec.exe> exists. Even if I type 'ls <exec>' it shows that 
'<exec>' exist and actually <exec> points to <exec.exe>. But 
if I try 'cp <exec> <exec>.1' it reports 'No such file or 
directory'. Ok, I could correct Makefile to deal explicitly with 
<exec.exe> and, after that, it works fine. But some distributions (as, for 
example, X11R6.3) rely on that issue too much, so a lot of changes should be 
done to make it buildable. And what is really confusing is that for 'ls' command 
<exec> exists as well as <exec.exe>, BUT for cp and mv commands only 
<exec.exe> exists, BUT not <exec>! I cannot also say 'ln -s exec.exe 
exec', because for ln <exec> already exists.
 
   May be somebody knows how to fight with this 
problem?
 
                                                                                                 
Konstantin Terletskiy
 
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