On Aug 23 20:00, David Allsopp wrote: > Jon Turney wrote: > > I'm confused here: /usr/lib/ocaml/camlheaderd[di] look like executables > > (according to file etc.) > > > > If they genuinely aren't, then perhaps they shouldn't have execute > > permission (which is I think what is causing them to be caught by that > > piece of code in cygport...) > > ocamlc won't care about the executable bit, but these files are _data_ > and so it will care if they end up with a .exe extension, because they > are open'd not exec'd. > > The files themselves form the start of executables produced by ocamlc. > For both Cygwin and native Windows, it's a tiny C program responsible > for locating ocamlrun (on Unix, it's just a shebang line) and the > bytecode itself gets appended.
Why is ocaml for Cygwin not produing shebang files as well? After all, we're trying to be as Unix-compatible as possible. Corinna
