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Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:49:29 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
To: Ajit George <gajit AT kurianinc DOT com>
Cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: STOP the RFC! Web poll for a.out vs a.exe vs foo.exe question
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In-Reply-To: <000201bf5e22$dc83fe00$830120d0@bertie.kurianinc.com>; from gajit@kurianinc.com on Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 06:04:01PM -0600

On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 06:04:01PM -0600, Ajit George wrote:
>In the poll, does 'file.exe' literally mean 'file.exe', or does it mean, for
>example, 'prog.exe' when running 'gcc prog.c'?

We're contemplating just having gcc output one specific file since it
will be much less confusing to the users who accidentally type -o
soemthing and find that their something.exe file has been completely
overwritten!

So the relevant makefile rule will now be:

myprog.exe:
	gcc foo.o bar.o; mv file.exe myprog.exe

Hmm.  No.  That can't be right because then every file would be named
myprog.exe.

I guess we'll have to work on this concept some more.

cgf

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