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Re: [mingw32] Re: [RFC] changing gcc default output executable na me (a.exe now)


I could see allowing an option to drop the extension; however, most of us who do cross-platform stuff have customers on Windows who do not use shells at all. For this reason along with that thing about backward-compatibility, I would only want to see it as an option and not the default behavior.

-- Matthew Brown

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
To: "Andre Oliveira da Costa" <costa@cade.com.br>; <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 3:26 PM
Subject: RE: [mingw32] Re: [RFC] changing gcc default output executable na me (a.exe now)


> --- Andre Oliveira da Costa <costa@cade.com.br> wrote:
> > Mmmh... ok, I agree this would solve the problem for packages which use
> > autoconf/automake. But those who don't are still in the dark. The worst of
> > it all is that the .exe suffix is added by ld -- it is as if cygwin creates
> > problems for itself...
> > 
> > (before flaming starts: I know there's a very good reason for the insertion
> > of the .exe suffix: it has to be added so that the files can be seen as
> > executables by Windoze -- another great feature (?) by M$oft... =T As I
> > said, I just think it would be nice to have this .exe suffix handled
> > transparently, since it is automagically created)
> > 
> 
> I agree, Andre.  I suggested, years ago now, that the .exe suffix be an
> optional configuration whose default is off.  It isn't needed by the Bourne
> shells we use to execute the programs.  I would like to see this as optional
> with say a GCC_SUFFIX=.exe environment variable.  If GCC_SUFFIX exists it uses
> the value to append to the executable output file.
> 
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