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Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:21:35 -0800 (PST)
From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed AT reedmedia DOT net>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: coreutils-5.2.1-2
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On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > - cp(1), install(1), ln(1) and mv(1) contain patches to deal with .exe
> >   suffixes more or less transparently.
>
> How does the cygwin project choose which tools are patched for dealing
> with .exe and what is not?
>
> Thank you for fixing cp.
>
> My next problem is "strip".
>
> strip filename doesn't work if filename really is called filename.exe
>
> $ strip /home/jreed/pkg/bin/#inst.1924#
> strip: /home/jreed/pkg/bin/#inst.1924#: No such file or directory
>
> $ ls -li /home/jreed/pkg/bin/#inst.1924# /home/jreed/pkg/bin/#inst.1924#.exe
> 70650219154389122 -rwxrwxrwx  1 jreed Users 158621 Dec 22 15:02
> /home/jreed/pkg/bin/#inst.1924#
> 70650219154389122 -rwxrwxrwx  1 jreed Users 158621 Dec 22 15:02
> /home/jreed/pkg/bin/#inst.1924#.exe

And mv is wrong too:

$ mv /home/jreed/pkg/bin/#inst.1316# /home/jreed/pkg/bin/bmake
mv: cannot move `/home/jreed/pkg/bin/#inst.1316#' to
`/home/jreed/pkg/bin/bmake': No such file or directory

$ ls -l /home/jreed/pkg/bin/#inst.1316#
-r-xr-xr-x  1 jreed Users 158621 Dec 22 15:18 /home/jreed/pkg/bin/#inst.1316#

It does work if I mv with the filename with the .exe extension.

> Instead of attempting to fix every command with this problem, I'd prefer
> to not have the .exe extension in the first place.
>
> How do I disable this not-needed feature in gcc?
>
> (I will not use old Windows that needs it.)


 Jeremy C. Reed

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