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Subject: RE: Should Cygwin gcc -o always append .exe?
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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 12:45:02 +1000
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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Jason Tishler" <Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com>,
        "Cygwin-Apps" <cygwin-apps AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
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My understanding:
OpenLDAP should be patched. If it uses automake, upgrading to a newer
automake will fix this for you.

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Tishler [mailto:Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 7:14 AM
> To: Cygwin-Apps
> Subject: Should Cygwin gcc -o always append .exe?
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> -- 
> 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
>