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Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 17:14:13 -0400
From: Jason Tishler <Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com>
To: Cygwin-Apps <cygwin-apps AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject: Should Cygwin gcc -o always append .exe?
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Organization: Dot Hill Systems Corp.

While building OpenLDAP 2.0.11, I stumbled across an issue with Cygwin
gcc -o that can be characterized by the following:

    $ gcc -o in.foo foo.c
    $ ls in.foo*
    in.foo

I expected that in.foo.exe would have been created instead of in.foo.
The Makefile for in.xfingerd expected this behavior too and failed during
make install.

Should Cygwin gcc be changed to resolve this issue or should OpenLDAP
be patched?

Thanks,
Jason

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Jason Tishler
Director, Software Engineering       Phone: 732.264.8770 x235
Dot Hill Systems Corp.               Fax:   732.264.8798
82 Bethany Road, Suite 7             Email: Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com
Hazlet, NJ 07730 USA                 WWW:   http://www.dothill.com