Re: install assumes.exe extension?

["DePriest, Jason R." <jrdepriest at gmail dot com>]

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Ralph Hempel <> wrote:
> I'd just like to clear up some confusion on my part
> about "install" as distributed with Cygwin.
>
> I'm building Lua, an MIT licensed scripting language.
>
> Part of the lua "make install" process calls install
> as follows:
>
> cd src && install -p -m 0755 lua luac /usr/local/bin
>
> And sure enough, lua and luac show up in /usr/local/bin
>
> But they exist as src/lua.exe and src/luac.exe
>
> So the question is, is it install or the cygwin dll that
> assumes the exe extension on the file in the source dir
> and then removes it when installing it to the destination?
>
> Ralph
>
> PS. I'm willing to maintain a Lua (and significant libraries)
>    port for distribution with Cygwin
>

Does this help?
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#id318321

-Jason

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