Re: [PATCH] Revise Windows PECOFF weak symbols

[Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>]

Hi Daniel, Hi Aaron,

> > > + #
> > > + # exe_ext
> > > + #	Returns target executable extension, if any.
> > > + #
> > > + proc exe_ext {} {
> > > +     if { [istarget *-*-mingw32] || [istarget *-*-cygwin*] } {
> > > +         return ".exe"
> > > +     } else {
> > > +         return ""
> > > +     }
> > > + }
> >
> > This is the best way I could think of for doing this, which should work
> > for Linux also.

Except that Linux hosted cross-compilers, eg for i686-pc-cygwin, have 
executables without the .exe extension, but the above code checks the 
cross-compiler's target and not the cross-compiler's host.

> istarget corresponds to --target, which does not affect EXE_EXT. 
> There's an ishost; would that work?

Ah - yes that ought to do the trick.

Cheers
  Nick