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Subject: Re: [Packaging error] c3270/tcl3270/s3270/pr3287/x3270
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On Feb 24 21:31, Peter A. Castro wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Peter A. Castro wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
> >
> >>Hi
> >>
> >>The binaries from the following packages are missing the .exe extension.
> >>
> >> c3270-3.3.4p7-2
> >> pr3287-3.3.4p7-2
> >> s3270-3.3.4p7-2
> >> tcl3270-3.3.4p7-2
> >
> >Yikes!  Hmm...how strange.  Ok, I'll fix that.  Thanks for the catch!
> 
> Ok, I've been investigating just how/why this happened and it seems
> there's been a change in how some of the automagic executable suffix
> munging is being done in Cygwin 1.7 versus 1.5.
> 
> The makefile has this bit of script in it:
> 
>   /usr/bin/install -c c3270 $DESTDIR/$BINDIR/c3270
> 
> Under Cygwin 1.5, this creates "c3270.exe".
> Under Cygwin 1.7, this created "c3270"  (no .exe).
> 
> There's been no change in the makefile scripts between releases of these
> packages, so this is apparently a change in behaviour in either
> /usr/bin/install or Cygwin's magical filename resolver internals.
> 
> Yes, I've already dug through the email archives and this has been
> discussed before with really no good resolution.

Add $(EXEXT) handling to configure and makefiles?


Corinna

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