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From: Julio Costa <costaju AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:21:58 +0100
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Subject: Re: 'cp' utility bug when <dest-name>.exe file exist.
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On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 20:49, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 05:28:16PM +0100, Julio Costa wrote:
>>On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 16:47, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 03:02:16PM +0100, Julio Costa wrote:
>>>>On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 14:20, Eric Blake wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Have you ever encountered a makefile that doesn't consistently use
>>>>> $(EXEEXT) everywhere? ??Too many people just expect 'gcc -o foo ...' =
to
>>>>> produce foo, then 'strip foo' to work, without realizing that on cygw=
in,
>>>>> gcc created 'foo.exe' and strip _has_ to have .exe magic.
>>>>
>>>>That's just one of the several scenarios which would greatly benefit
>>>>from a removal of .exe magic.
>>>
>>> Uh, no. ??That would BREAK makefiles.
>>>
>>
>>Huh? I'm getting dense. My reading was:
>>
>>if gcc (or cygwin with his magic) did't apply the .exe extension, then
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0{strip,cp,mv,install,etc...} wouldn't need the .exe magic
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0period.
>>else
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0strip&company _do_ need the .exe magic
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0# ...and possibily because of that, some Makefiles were nee=
dlessly
>>modified to do his own magic
>>end if
>>
>>So, what would break?
>
> Any makefile which didn't use the absolute latest version of gcc which
> has this critically important change to remove .exe.
>

How come? I thought that that kind of things was handled by an regular
autoconf, which tries to see what is the result of a gcc
compilation... (the a.out test)

> For the record, unless Corinna thinks it's a good idea (which I doubt):
> we're not going to change Cygwin to drop all of the .exe extensions from
> every single file in the distribution and I'd be violently opposed to
> the notion of changing gcc's default behavior after all of these years.
>

Well, here you have two unbeatable arguments:
1) violence
2) after all these years

That is quite enough to make your point.
After all, WJM, right?

I rest my case.

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