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.
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