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RE: Programs differing only by ".exe" suffix: subtle Libtool 1.3
- To: "Matthew D. Langston" <langston@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
- Subject: RE: Programs differing only by ".exe" suffix: subtle Libtool 1.3
- From: Thomas Tanner <tanner@gmx.de>
- Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 12:13:13 +0200 (CEST)
- Cc: Automake List <automake@gnu.org>, bug-libtool@gnu.org
On 22-May-99 Matthew D. Langston wrote:
> In a nutshell, an Automake/Libtool package becomes "broken" when two
> programs (i.e. in some Automake "_PROGRAMS" primary) differ in their
> names only by the suffix ".exe". For example, the following snippet
> from `Makefile.am' works as expected:
Thanks. Fixed.
> I recently came across this bug while "Autoconfing" a package called
> ROOT (an analysis package for High Energy Physics). My "Autoconfed"
> version of ROOT creates two programs named "root" and "root.exe". Since
> I am packaging a 3rd party package, I have no control over the names of
> these two programs. I have had to fall back to Libtool 1.2 for now.
Using prog and prog.exe at the same time isn't really portable.
On CygWin libtool has to strip off the .exe suffix from the
wrapper script, i.e., prog == prog.exe.
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