Re: Don't create bogus a.exe in mingw directory

[egor duda <deo at logos-m dot ru>]

Hi!

Sunday, 04 November, 2001 Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com wrote:

EB> egor duda wrote:
>> 
>> Hi!
>> 
>>   Now we're creating unneeded (and not cleaned by 'make clean') a.exe
>> file during make of mingw10.dll. here's a patch to fix it.
>> 

EB> Why not just add a remove of a.exe in the clean?  I.E.: Why add the -o 
EB> mingwthrd_dummy.exe?

1) if, for some reason, a.exe is changed to, say, a.out it'll stop
working. i don't like to rely on defaults. they change sometimes.
2) if one see stale mingwthrd_dummy.exe in his build directory it's
clear where it's coming from (just by looking at Makefile). it takes
me some time to figure out who's creating a.exe

initially, i wanted to add '-o /dev/null' instead of '-o mingwthrd_dummy.exe',
but then thought that it probably won't work with native mingw
compiler.

Egor.            mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19