Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Message-ID: <001201c31d95$fafad120$78d96f83@pomello>
From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To: <martin AT xemacs DOT org>
Cc: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References: <16071 DOT 62978 DOT 20742 DOT 367143 AT gargle DOT gargle DOT HOWL><001c01c31d8a$3dbe4d40$78d96f83 AT pomello> <16072 DOT 5319 DOT 377807 DOT 761155 AT gargle DOT gargle DOT HOWL>
Subject: Re: Using Cygwin on NT 4.0 and Win2000; a user experience
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 00:34:08 +0100
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165

Martin Buchholz wrote:
>>> - The "grep" package comes with a grep.exe (and no file "grep"), but
>>> no egrep.exe (instead it has a "egrep").  Of course this is easy for
>>> the user to fix, but the package should be fixed as well.
>
> Max> There is nothing wrong here - it doesn't need to be fixed.
>
> There is non-zero support in Sun's Java SDK to allow building using
> Cygwin tools (although MKS is the "official" supported platform).
> In one of the Makefiles is this line:
>
> EGREP          = $(UNIXCOMMAND_PATH)egrep.exe
>
> Arguably, this is bad code.  You should run a command via its name,
> sans any .EXE extension.  But Cygwin should be consistent; either all
> executables are named FOO, or they're named FOO.EXE.  Make up your mind.

Except that we are consistent. *Real* executables have an .exe suffix.
Symlinks don't.


Max.


--
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/