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On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 05:16:05PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>On 06/28/2010 05:08 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>> It is not unusual for mono packages to create a wrapper script (to be
>> installed in PATH) in the same directory as an assembly (which has .exe
>> suffix and is installed out of PATH), which uncovered a regression using
>> the 20100622 snapshot:
>> 
>> echo script > foo
>> echo executable > foo.exe
>> mkdir bar
>> install foo bar/foo
>
>The problem is here - should install be open()ing "foo" (the script) or
>"foo.exe" (the executable) as the source file for copying into bar/foo?
> Since it is never a good idea to have both an .exe and a script of the
>same name in the same directory, is this really a regression, or just
>bad behavior on mono's part?  Remember, libtool was recently changed to
>avoid exactly this ambiguity.  Or should I be trying to patch coreutils
>(and/or someone patch cygwin1.dll) to try harder to open the script
>instead of the .exe when the suffix-less file conflicts with the .exe?

Is the dll "misbehaving" here or the install program?

cgf

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