Re: Programs differing only by ".exe" suffix: subtle Libtool 1.3

[Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>]

On May 25, 1999, Thomas Tanner <tanner@gmx.de> wrote:

> On 25-May-99 Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> Yep, but your fix will break msdos/djgpp :-(

>  ??? Why? It just reverts to the libtool 1.2 behaviour

Precisely.  We didn't support msdos/djgpp then.

>  which some projects rely on.
 
Those can install the patch you had installed in their own trees, but
we shouldn't help people make such unportable uses, unless we're sure
we're doing the right thing.  And doing the right thing will require a 
lot of work.

>  On the contrary, we should remove OS/2 from the list, since
>  only cygwin handles scripts this way, doesn't it?

I believe none of us knows for sure, so we'd better not touch what's
working, in such a maintenance release.

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