X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <467771D5.2060009@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:04:05 -0400 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: .exe magic References: <46254976.4000308@cygwin.com> <4625DB90.6000001@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <20070418100925.GJ5799@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20070418100925.GJ5799@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > 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? After two months and a dozen revisions of various patches, CVS libtool -- what will become libtool 2.0 sometime during the next ice age -- no longer stores both a libtool shell wrapper and a libtool binary wrapper in the same directory. So now transparent_exe and libtool should no longer act like oil and water. Yay. -- Chuck -- 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/