Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <20000114174239.28821.qmail@web125.yahoomail.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 09:42:39 -0800 (PST) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Subject: Re: [mingw32] Re: [RFC] changing gcc default output executable name (a.exe now) To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Andre Oliveira da Costa wrote: > > [...] > > I don't think tweaking all these applications to look for "foo.exe" if they > > can't find "foo" would be the right thing. But I would really like to be > > able to install the applications I compile without having to tweak all the > > makefiles. Maybe the solution would be not to add the .exe suffix... > > I agree. It would be nice if gcc would not add .exe automatically. > Maybe it's not a 'modern' solution but it's the way, cc produces > executables since french revolution: > > No output name given: a.out is created, > -o foo: foo is created. > > That's it and it's ok. > IMHO. > Corinna > BTW, ld already has a switch named --force-exe-suffix. Wonder why it's not supported on Win32? ===== Earnie Boyd Cygwin Newbies, please visit __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com