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Re: coreutils: install transparent_exe issues?
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According to Corinna Vinschen on 3/30/2009 5:15 AM:
>> Eric,
>>
>> With cygwin-1.7.0-44 and coreutils-7.0-2, install(1) no longer appends
>> '.exe' to the destination filename. STC:
>>
>>
>> This breaks non-autotoolized makefiles which don't account for EXEEXT.
>> Interestingly, though, strip(1) will still add an .exe:
>
> And if you call `install -s hello d1' you'll get a .exe suffix as well.
> The problem is that the .exe suffix is added based on a heuristic in
> the rename(2) system call. When strip strips the file it creates a
> temporary file and renames it to the original filename afterwards.
> This rename operation adds the exe suffix, seeing the original file
> is an excutable.
>
> Install OTOH just creates a file "d1/hello" and copies over the content.
> There's no heuristic figuring out that the data is a valid executable
> header and then renaming it on the fly. Thus, install as well as cp
> still need their own `attach .exe suffix' code.
Yes, this has been previously reported, and is on my list of things to fix
once coreutils 7.2 is released this week.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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