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Re: .exe magic
On Apr 18 04:49, Charles Wilson wrote:
> The current .exe behavior has benefited from many years of tweaking and
> fine-tuning, across many different packages (cygwin, gcc, gdb, binutils,
> automake, autoconf, libtool, bash, coreutils, ...) to work together to
> give the current, mostly coherent, least-surprise behavior we enjoy
> today. [...]
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?
Corinna
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