.exe magic

[Charles Wilson]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Apart from that, I don't like what libtool does.  I think it's a
> terrible idea to have a script and a binary with the same name (only
> differing by the .exe suffix) in the same directory.  This behaviour
> breaks the CYGWIN=transparent_exe option and there's no reliable way
> around this.
> 
> Is there any chance that this could be changed in libtool?

After two months and a dozen revisions of various patches, CVS libtool 
-- what will become libtool 2.0 sometime during the next ice age -- no 
longer stores both a libtool shell wrapper and a libtool binary wrapper 
in the same directory.

So now transparent_exe and libtool should no longer act like oil and water.

Yay.

--
Chuck

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