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According to Christian Franke on 1/9/2010 12:00 PM:
> The handling of .exe extension apparently changed from 1.5 to 1.7.
> The new handling might break 'make install' targets which do not use
> $(EXEEXT).

It is a known, and unintentional, regression in how I packaged coreutils,
but I have not yet had time to repackage coreutils to fix it.


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Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net


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