Eric Blake wrote: > According to Jim Meyering on 1/13/2010 3:19 AM: >> I didn't account for that use case. >> I wonder if there is some way to write/use a command-not-found >> handler to automate the error-prone "add-$EXE-suffix" at run-time. >> >> If at all possible, I would like to avoid the invasive change >> of adding the $EXE suffix to every just-built-binary invocation >> in every test script. > > mingw and cygwin handle it just fine, but my reading (although not my > experience) seems to imply that BeOS requires the .exe suffix. Wine is > another case where the suffix is (currently) important. But I do agree > that it would be much nicer if wine could do things automatically rather > than appending EXE in all of gnulib. > >> If the $EXE suffix is not required in that particular case, >> an alternative would be to create a temporary directory, D, >> and populate it with links of the form program ->../.../program.exe
I meant program.exe -> .../original or program.exe as a copy of the original. >> (or simply copies, if ln isn't an option) and then prepend "D:" to PATH.
