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Re: .exe magic


On Jun 19 02:04, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >Apart from that, I don't like what libtool does.  I think it's a
> >terrible idea to have a script and a binary with the same name (only
> >differing by the .exe suffix) in the same directory.  This behaviour
> >breaks the CYGWIN=transparent_exe option and there's no reliable way
> >around this.
> >
> >Is there any chance that this could be changed in libtool?
> 
> After two months and a dozen revisions of various patches, CVS libtool 
> -- what will become libtool 2.0 sometime during the next ice age -- no 
> longer stores both a libtool shell wrapper and a libtool binary wrapper 
> in the same directory.
> 
> So now transparent_exe and libtool should no longer act like oil and water.

Woohoo.  Thank you!


Corinna

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