Re: tar deletes .exe files on extraction (again)

On Sep 23, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > On 9/23/2011 11:26 AM, Steve Atkins wrote: >> I'm talking about developers of applications, not cygwin-using end users. >> The developers could work around it (by not including .exe bootstrap files >> in cross-

Re: tar deletes .exe files on extraction (again)

On Sep 23, 2011, at 10:41 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > On 9/23/2011 9:14 AM, Steve Atkins wrote: >> On Sep 23, 2011, at 8:34 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> >>> On 09/23/11 07:55, Ryan Johnson wrote: >>>> Wild speculation here... >>>> >>&

Re: tar deletes .exe files on extraction (again)

On Sep 23, 2011, at 8:34 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > On 09/23/11 07:55, Ryan Johnson wrote: >> >> Wild speculation here... >> >> A quick test shows that ./a indeed works fine inside cygwin whether the >> '.exe' is present or not, though it would be a little challenging invoke >> such binaries

tar deletes .exe files on extraction (again)

In the process of trying to build Qt on Windows in a cygwin shell, I've discovered that neither tar nor unzip will work reliably under Cygwin - untaring an archive will not correctly create the files that the archive contains. The "configure.exe" that's required to build Qt is never extracted f