make: .exe handling breaks kernel cross-compile

[Yaakov (Cygwin/X)]

On 2012-06-10 23:26, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> If there is a bug it is with make ever equating foo.exe with foo.  It's
> undoubtedly happening because of Cygwin's attempts at transparency.
>
> I'm not kidding about EXEEXT.  Surely you know about this from having
> maintained cygport.

Am I ever, but I suspect *you* know that incorporating EXEEXT into the 
Linux kernel buildsystem will likely never be accepted upstream.

That being said, I do have another patch which might have a chance, so 
the last hurdle from our side is in regex, per my previous thread.


Yaakov


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