X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 18:34:50 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog syscalls.cc Message-ID: <20091105173450.GQ26344@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20091105144413.31963.qmail@sourceware.org> <4AF30801.7090508@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4AF30801.7090508@users.sourceforge.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 Nov 5 11:14, Yaakov S wrote: > On 05/11/2009 08:44, corinna-rDBXBDvO6BXQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org wrote: > >Modified files: > > winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog syscalls.cc > > > >Log message: > > * syscalls.cc (nt_path_has_suffix): New function. > > (rename): Don't append .exe suffix if binary target name has any suffix > > at all. > > > >Patches: > >http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog.diff?cvsroot=src&r1=1.4708&r2=1.4709 > >http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc.diff?cvsroot=src&r1=1.543&r2=1.544 > > On my system dozens of executables do have a '.' near the end of > their names, either representing a version (e.g. perl5.10.0.exe, > python2.5.exe), or OCaml native code (*.opt.exe), or for other > reasons (e.g. *.bin.exe where the program is launched via a script). > How does this change affect building/installing them? Let's see: rename ("foo.exe", "perl5.10.0.exe") result: perl5.10.0.exe rename ("foo.exe", "perl5.10.0") result: perl5.10.0 rename ("foo", "perl5.10.0.exe") result: perl5.10.0.exe rename ("foo", "perl5.10.0") result: perl5.10.0 The latter one is a problem, because that's what happens when calling strip perl5.10.0 so after strip the binary is missing a .exe suffix. Sigh. Is there any *reliable* solution to this problem, other than never to add a .exe suffix? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple