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Date:	Fri, 14 Jan 2000 18:36:30 +0100
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de>
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To:	Andre Oliveira da Costa <costa AT cade DOT com DOT br>
CC:	cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject:	Re: [mingw32] Re: [RFC] changing gcc default output executable name
	(a.exe now)
References:	<001901bf5df6$428a2170$8400000a AT costa DOT cadenet DOT com DOT br>

Andre Oliveira da Costa wrote:
> [...]
> I don't think tweaking all these applications to look for "foo.exe" if they
> can't find "foo" would be the right thing. But I would really like to be
> able to install the applications I compile without having to tweak all the
> makefiles. Maybe the solution would be not to add the .exe suffix...

I agree. It would be nice if gcc would not add .exe automatically.
Maybe it's not a 'modern' solution but it's the way, cc produces
executables since french revolution:

	No output name given: 	a.out is created,
	-o foo:			foo is created.

That's it and it's ok.
IMHO.
Corinna

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