X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,TVD_RCVD_IP X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:47:56 -0800 (PST) From: "Peter A. Castro" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [Packaging error] c3270/tcl3270/s3270/pr3287/x3270 In-Reply-To: <20100225115108.GM5683@calimero.vinschen.de> Message-ID: References: <7zeikwb1zv.fsf@vzell-de.de.oracle.com> <20100225115108.GM5683@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 24 21:31, Peter A. Castro wrote: >> On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Peter A. Castro wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: >>> >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> The binaries from the following packages are missing the .exe extension. >>>> >>>> c3270-3.3.4p7-2 >>>> pr3287-3.3.4p7-2 >>>> s3270-3.3.4p7-2 >>>> tcl3270-3.3.4p7-2 >>> >>> Yikes! Hmm...how strange. Ok, I'll fix that. Thanks for the catch! >> >> Ok, I've been investigating just how/why this happened and it seems >> there's been a change in how some of the automagic executable suffix >> munging is being done in Cygwin 1.7 versus 1.5. >> >> The makefile has this bit of script in it: >> >> /usr/bin/install -c c3270 $DESTDIR/$BINDIR/c3270 >> >> Under Cygwin 1.5, this creates "c3270.exe". >> Under Cygwin 1.7, this created "c3270" (no .exe). >> >> There's been no change in the makefile scripts between releases of these >> packages, so this is apparently a change in behaviour in either >> /usr/bin/install or Cygwin's magical filename resolver internals. >> >> Yes, I've already dug through the email archives and this has been >> discussed before with really no good resolution. > > Add $(EXEXT) handling to configure and makefiles? As I've said in other email, I'll feed back to the owner of the project with some suggestions, but this really just underscores how un-unix-like this environment is. For the moment I have a convenient workaround. > Corinna -- Peter A. Castro or "Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood -- 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