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Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 09:23:10 +0100
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From: David Starks-Browning <starksb AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk>
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To: Ross Smith <ross DOT s AT ihug DOT co DOT nz>
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Subject: Re: Compiling Sendmail With Cygwin?
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On Saturday 30 Oct 99, Ross Smith writes:
> Another major headache I've found with running Unix configure & make
> files under Cygwin is file names, specifically "foo" vs "foo.exe" for
> executables. A lot of scripts are broken by this one. GCC itself has a
> hack to work around this, but utilities like cp, mv, rm, etc don't.

Pierre A. Humblet's replacement for install.exe, available at
<ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Humblet_Pierre_A/install-cygwin-b20-sh>,
might be enough for most cases.

David

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