Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: SV: Tracing down problem when compiling GCC 3.3 under cygwin PR 10626 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 08:46:26 +0200 Message-ID: <41D1051F31A2674C99E41CA28EE73498018C63@isp-ex2k.intellimade.net> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8yvind_Harboe?= To: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id h476rhq24865 >AFAICT, install-sh should never be asked to install an executable which >lacks an .exe when the executable was built with a .exe extension. So, >the fact that sometimes it "works" is a red herring. I don't understand what you mean when you say that it is a "red herring". Here is what I observed: - The install of gcc fails most of the time under cygwin on the machine at work. (This is for sure) - I have traced it down to install-sh (I could be wrong here) - When I launch Emacs and create a shell from within emacs and run "make install", the install is more likely, but not guaranteed to work. (I'm quite confident about this observation). - I haven't had the oportunity to check if this problem is particular to my machine. > As you noted, cp >has limited support for copying .exe files and mv has none. It really >is up to gcc to accommodate that by specifying the .exe extension in all >cases. That's the whole point of having an install-sh script. It's >supposed to be accommodating of system pecularities. I have also seen that "ls foo" will list foo.exe. I believe that install-sh checks for the existance of "foo" (the source) and then believes that "foo" can be used in cp/mv, etc. I will convey the message, but from the response I got, I don't think the guy who was assigned to the problem had enough knowledge about CygWin to resolve the issue. Øyvind -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/