Cygwin RCS Build Instructions (or sometimes ash does not like a.out)

[Earnie Boyd]

--- Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
> 
> ash wants files to have the executable bit set.  Cygwin fakes this by looking
> for files with specific extensions and setting the bit in that case.
> 
> '.out' is not one of the extensions.
> 

IMO, .out should be considered as "one of the extensions".  After all cmd.exe
will execute a file with a .out extension.  At least on my NT4sp4 machine,
YMMV.

Cheers,

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Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com

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