'cp' utility bug when <dest-name>.exe file exist.

[Eliot Moss]

On 6/9/2010 10:29 AM, Eliot Moss wrote:
> On 6/9/2010 10:14 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 06/09/2010 08:08 AM, Andy Koppe wrote:
>
>> But even with that gcc change, we'd have to keep .exe magic in
>> cygwin1.dll until everything in the distro has been rebuilt without an
>> .exe suffix.
>
> Maybe this is simplistic, but what about having setup's copying
> remove .exe from copy targets when installing? Then a fresh
> install and everything would work. What are the problems with
> this (admittedly off the cuff) approach?
>
> -- Eliot Moss

(Meant this to go to the this, and on first try sent
only to Eric; "my bad".)

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