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Date:	Thu, 27 Jun 2013 13:29:29 +0200
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Il 6/27/2013 1:17 PM, Earnie Boyd ha scritto:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 7:13 AM, marco atzeri wrote:
>> Il 6/27/2013 12:49 PM, Alexey Pavlov ha scritto:
>>
>>> Prereq:
>>> Having two files with the same name in directory. One file without
>>> extension, second with ".exe". For example: "configure" and
>>> "configure.exe".
>>> I want patch "configure".
>>> During patch Cygwin delete "configure.exe" and I have only "configure".
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Alexey.
>>
>>
>> Alexey,
>> do not use two files in the same directory with and
>> without ".exe" extension
>>
>
> Regardless, Cygwin should not go deleting the .exe when the basename
> file exists.  A work-around may be to append a '.' character to the
> end of the file name.  I've used this method in the past but have not
> tested it with recent Cygwin's.
>

The workaround is "do not do it".
For cygwin "configure.exe" is also "configure", trying to outsmart this
fact is prone to failure.

Regards
Marco


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