Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <033b01bf5e07$849766c0$2301a8c0@mediadb.net> From: "Matthew Brown" To: , "Andre Oliveira da Costa" , References: <20000113202630.19220.qmail@web124.yahoomail.com> Subject: Re: [mingw32] Re: [RFC] changing gcc default output executable na me (a.exe now) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 15:48:17 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id PAA12001 I could see allowing an option to drop the extension; however, most of us who do cross-platform stuff have customers on Windows who do not use shells at all. For this reason along with that thing about backward-compatibility, I would only want to see it as an option and not the default behavior. -- Matthew Brown ----- Original Message ----- From: "Earnie Boyd" To: "Andre Oliveira da Costa" ; Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 3:26 PM Subject: RE: [mingw32] Re: [RFC] changing gcc default output executable na me (a.exe now) > --- Andre Oliveira da Costa wrote: > > Mmmh... ok, I agree this would solve the problem for packages which use > > autoconf/automake. But those who don't are still in the dark. The worst of > > it all is that the .exe suffix is added by ld -- it is as if cygwin creates > > problems for itself... > > > > (before flaming starts: I know there's a very good reason for the insertion > > of the .exe suffix: it has to be added so that the files can be seen as > > executables by Windoze -- another great feature (?) by M$oft... =T As I > > said, I just think it would be nice to have this .exe suffix handled > > transparently, since it is automagically created) > > > > I agree, Andre. I suggested, years ago now, that the .exe suffix be an > optional configuration whose default is off. It isn't needed by the Bourne > shells we use to execute the programs. I would like to see this as optional > with say a GCC_SUFFIX=.exe environment variable. If GCC_SUFFIX exists it uses > the value to append to the executable output file. > > > ===== > Earnie Boyd > Cygwin Newbies, please visit > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > http://im.yahoo.com > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com > > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com