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Re: .exe magic
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:53:43 +0200
- Subject: Re: .exe magic
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- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Jun 19 02:04, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >Apart from that, I don't like what libtool does. I think it's a
> >terrible idea to have a script and a binary with the same name (only
> >differing by the .exe suffix) in the same directory. This behaviour
> >breaks the CYGWIN=transparent_exe option and there's no reliable way
> >around this.
> >
> >Is there any chance that this could be changed in libtool?
>
> After two months and a dozen revisions of various patches, CVS libtool
> -- what will become libtool 2.0 sometime during the next ice age -- no
> longer stores both a libtool shell wrapper and a libtool binary wrapper
> in the same directory.
>
> So now transparent_exe and libtool should no longer act like oil and water.
Woohoo. Thank you!
Corinna
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