X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:09:25 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: .exe magic Message-ID: <20070418100925.GJ5799@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <46254976.4000308@cygwin.com> <4625DB90.6000001@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4625DB90.6000001@cwilson.fastmail.fm> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Apr 18 04:49, Charles Wilson wrote: > The current .exe behavior has benefited from many years of tweaking and > fine-tuning, across many different packages (cygwin, gcc, gdb, binutils, > automake, autoconf, libtool, bash, coreutils, ...) to work together to > give the current, mostly coherent, least-surprise behavior we enjoy > today. [...] Apart from that, I don't like what libtool does. I think it's a terrible idea to have a script and a binary with the same name (only differing by the .exe suffix) in the same directory. This behaviour breaks the CYGWIN=transparent_exe option and there's no reliable way around this. Is there any chance that this could be changed in libtool? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/