On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 06:33:50AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >According to Christopher Faylor on 4/24/2007 6:26 AM: >> On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 10:09:54PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >>> Upgrading to coreutils-6.9 breaks info, as it tries to invoke gunzip.exe. >>> This should be fixed in info to just invoke gunzip, since in gzip 1.3.9, >>> gunzip is merely a symlink (and the new coreutils no longer adds implicit >>> and confusing .exe extensions to symlinks). >> >> Are you saying that info uses coreutils to start gunzip somehow? > >No, I'm stating that info invokes 'gunzip.exe',
If I do a 'strings' on info.exe, I see the strings 'bzip2' and 'gzip' without extensions. >coreutils 6.9 runs the coreutils postinstall script, which renames all >symlinks in /bin with .exe suffixes to avoid the suffix (consistent with >its new behavior of ln -s). I have to admit that my eyes glaze over when people start talking about .exe extensions so I wasn't paying attention (my bad) when this decision was made. I don't remember, however, this decision being put to a vote for package maintainers because I definitely would have voted for each maintainer fixing their package rather than having you do it for us. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
