Re: [Packaging error] c3270/tcl3270/s3270/pr3287/x3270

["Peter A. Castro" <doctor at fruitbat dot org>]

On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Feb 24 21:31, Peter A. Castro wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Peter A. Castro wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > The binaries from the following packages are missing the .exe extension.
> > > >
> > > > c3270-3.3.4p7-2
> > > > pr3287-3.3.4p7-2
> > > > s3270-3.3.4p7-2
> > > > tcl3270-3.3.4p7-2
> > >
> > > Yikes!  Hmm...how strange.  Ok, I'll fix that.  Thanks for the catch!
> >
> > Ok, I've been investigating just how/why this happened and it seems
> > there's been a change in how some of the automagic executable suffix
> > munging is being done in Cygwin 1.7 versus 1.5.
> >
> > The makefile has this bit of script in it:
> >
> >   /usr/bin/install -c c3270 $DESTDIR/$BINDIR/c3270
> >
> > Under Cygwin 1.5, this creates "c3270.exe".
> > Under Cygwin 1.7, this created "c3270"  (no .exe).
> >
> > There's been no change in the makefile scripts between releases of these
> > packages, so this is apparently a change in behaviour in either
> > /usr/bin/install or Cygwin's magical filename resolver internals.
> >
> > Yes, I've already dug through the email archives and this has been
> > discussed before with really no good resolution.
>
> Add $(EXEXT) handling to configure and makefiles?

As I've said in other email, I'll feed back to the owner of the project
with some suggestions, but this really just underscores how un-unix-like
this environment is.  For the moment I have a convenient workaround.

> Corinna

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