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Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:49:20 -0600
From: Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net>
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To: Charles Wilson <cygwin AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm>
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Subject: Re: cygwin coreutils-5.3.0-4 rm change breaks Libtool
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According to Charles Wilson on 4/12/2005 7:33 PM:
> Eric Blake wrote:
> 
>> Which line?  Since you already found the culprit, pointing others to
>> the location would be helpful.  Can you come up with a simple libtool
>> patch?
> 
> 
> I know where.  Actually, I'd prefer to keep the rm, if there is a
> mechanism to say "rm foo but NOT foo.exe".  Does the "rm -f foo." trick
> still work to specify "foo without any extension and I really mean it."

Yes, it still works on normal mounts, since Windows strips all trailing
dots and spaces, and cygwin does not do automatic extension adding if the
command line has a trailing dot.  However, on managed mounts, q. is a
valid filename, so `rm -f q.' silently fails rather than removing the
script, and if q. and q.exe exist in the managed mount, invoking plain q
gets q.exe and not the script `q.'.  And since some packages have
non-portable file names requiring the use of a managed mount to unpack
them, it could get difficult to relibtoolize such a package if libtool
uses the trailing dot trick.

- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!

Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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