Subject: Re: .exe handling change in fileutils-4.1-2
From: "Nathan J. Williams" <[email-masked]>
To: Doru Carastan <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: 14 Nov 2003 13:45:23 -0500

Doru Carastan <[email-masked]> writes:

> In reply to: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-11/msg00478.html
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> It is normal to see "touch foo.exe; cp foo bar" fail. You just created
> foo.exe, which is definitely not foo. Check with "ls -l".

Yes, I'm aware that foo.exe is not foo, but fileutils-4.1-1 contained
code which special-cased this situation, IMO very usefully. What I
would like to see is a ChangeLog entry or CVS log message or something
that corresponds to and explains the removal of that code.

> The current versions of autoconf and automake define and use
> EXEEXT=.exe. Check your Makefile.am or Makefile.in files and add
> $(EXEEXT) to all commands that involve executables.

The build system in question is not based on autoconf/automake.

        - Nathan

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