B19.1: make install scripts fail - trying to cp <exec> instead of <exec.exe>

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Hello!

 

   My name is Konstantin Terletskiy. I used CYGWIN Beta 19.1 a lot to port various UNIX utilities on NT. In most cases everything is OK, but most of the products have 'make install' step to install product to correct directories. Once tool has been built, it definitely has new <exec.exe> files to be installed. But makefile usually fails to do it reporting <exec>: No such file or directory. That's because makefile was written for pure UNIX, where executive file lloks like <exec>. But actually <exec.exe> exists. Even if I type 'ls <exec>' it shows that '<exec>' exist and actually <exec> points to <exec.exe>. But if I try 'cp <exec> <exec>.1' it reports 'No such file or directory'. Ok, I could correct Makefile to deal explicitly with <exec.exe> and, after that, it works fine. But some distributions (as, for example, X11R6.3) rely on that issue too much, so a lot of changes should be done to make it buildable. And what is really confusing is that for 'ls' command <exec> exists as well as <exec.exe>, BUT for cp and mv commands only <exec.exe> exists, BUT not <exec>! I cannot also say 'ln -s exec.exe exec', because for ln <exec> already exists.

 

   May be somebody knows how to fight with this problem?

 

                                                                                                 Konstantin Terletskiy