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install fails for .exe files
- To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
- Subject: install fails for .exe files
- From: "David Starks-Browning" <starksb@ebi.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 21:34:01 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
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Building Gnu texinfo-3.12 in B20.1, "make install" fails because the
makefile didn't expect executables to have the .exe suffix. This is
documented in the Cygwin User's Guide, at
<http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#AEN541>:
Unfortunately the install and strip commands do distinguish
between filename and filename.exe. They fail when working on a
non-existing filename even if filename.exe exists, thus
breaking some makefiles. This problem can be solved by writing
install and strip shell scripts to provide the extension
".exe" when needed.
I found the easiest solution was to use install-cygwin-b20-sh from
<ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin32/porters/Humblet_Pierre_A/>.
Shouldn't cygwin install.exe provide this functionality from the
beginning? Wouldn't it save users considerable time & trouble?
Regards,
David
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