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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 21:37:54 -0600
From: Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net>
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To: Jason Pyeron <jpyeron AT pdinc DOT us>
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Subject: Re: .exe suffix from gcc and friends
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According to Jason Pyeron on 10/11/2005 9:19 PM:
> 
> Is there a way to disable the .exe suffix when producing output from
> gcc, ld, etc?

You can try the brute force method: 'mv foo.exe bar.' (only works on
non-managed mounts).  But I don't know of any way to make gcc itself not
append the suffix.  But generally, stripping the suffix confuses Win9x,
and the autotools are already designed to help you with an appropriate
definition of $(EXEEXT) in your Makefiles, so it is not recommended.
Besides, cygwin has enough .exe magic that './foo' will run foo.exe if
that exists.

> 
> I think I missed it in the man pages.

I doubt the gcc man pages would have mentioned this, and the mv man pages
certainly don't (in general, man pages tend to be generic to all systems,
whereas .exe is a problem unique to cygwin and other Windows ports).

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Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer
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