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RE: [mingw32] Re: [RFC] changing gcc default output executable na me (a.exe now)
- To: Andre Oliveira da Costa <costa at cade dot com dot br>, cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: RE: [mingw32] Re: [RFC] changing gcc default output executable na me (a.exe now)
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:26:30 -0800 (PST)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
--- Andre Oliveira da Costa <costa@cade.com.br> wrote:
> Mmmh... ok, I agree this would solve the problem for packages which use
> autoconf/automake. But those who don't are still in the dark. The worst of
> it all is that the .exe suffix is added by ld -- it is as if cygwin creates
> problems for itself...
>
> (before flaming starts: I know there's a very good reason for the insertion
> of the .exe suffix: it has to be added so that the files can be seen as
> executables by Windoze -- another great feature (?) by M$oft... =T As I
> said, I just think it would be nice to have this .exe suffix handled
> transparently, since it is automagically created)
>
I agree, Andre. I suggested, years ago now, that the .exe suffix be an
optional configuration whose default is off. It isn't needed by the Bourne
shells we use to execute the programs. I would like to see this as optional
with say a GCC_SUFFIX=.exe environment variable. If GCC_SUFFIX exists it uses
the value to append to the executable output file.
=====
Earnie Boyd <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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