X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4B48D259.7080004@t-online.de> Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:00:41 +0100 From: Christian Franke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091017 SeaMonkey/2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: New handling of .exe extension might break install Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 The handling of .exe extension apparently changed from 1.5 to 1.7. The new handling might break 'make install' targets which do not use $(EXEEXT). (It actually does for grub-1.97) Testcase: $ cygcheck -f /bin/cygwin1.dll /bin/install.exe coreutils-6.10-2 cygwin-1.5.25-15 $ mkdir inst1 inst2 $ install /bin/echo inst1 $ install -s /bin/echo inst2 $ ls -1 inst?/* inst1/echo.exe inst2/echo.exe $ cygcheck -f /bin/cygwin1.dll /bin/install.exe coreutils-7.0-2 cygwin-1.7.1-1 $ mkdir inst1 inst2 $ install /bin/echo inst1 $ install -s /bin/echo inst2 $ ls -1 inst?/* inst1/echo inst2/echo.exe Christian -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple