-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 3/30/2009 5:15 AM: >> Eric, >> >> With cygwin-1.7.0-44 and coreutils-7.0-2, install(1) no longer appends >> '.exe' to the destination filename. STC: >> >> >> This breaks non-autotoolized makefiles which don't account for EXEEXT. >> Interestingly, though, strip(1) will still add an .exe:
> > And if you call `install -s hello d1' you'll get a .exe suffix as well. > The problem is that the .exe suffix is added based on a heuristic in > the rename(2) system call. When strip strips the file it creates a > temporary file and renames it to the original filename afterwards. > This rename operation adds the exe suffix, seeing the original file > is an excutable. > > Install OTOH just creates a file "d1/hello" and copies over the content. > There's no heuristic figuring out that the data is a valid executable > header and then renaming it on the fly. Thus, install as well as cp > still need their own `attach .exe suffix' code. Yes, this has been previously reported, and is on my list of things to fix once coreutils 7.2 is released this week. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknQuAwACgkQ84KuGfSFAYDuHwCfQ0r71NjdY+JXfd4upKj/jqdW mu8An1AqW5Hpsj52qhzPTcXfbHidRAhG =LG5s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
