From: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>
To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: How to "make install"?
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 23:42:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37CE96A0.28E30716@ece.gatech.edu> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990930234200.kiBLT6-M70oOCkfn0DnZK5aqV7g893G1Cje6IQwEZQI@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19990902144728.19952.qmail@www0n.netaddress.usa.net>
Stefan PETRUCHA wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think it is obvious that the install utility program doesn't work for
> binary executables because of .exe suffix. I saw some scripting solution
> here so I tried it. I made shell script adding .exe to appropriate
> parameters and calling the original install hidden somewhere out of
> $PATH. Then I 'make install' just made groff package. Make passed but
> oops! - all binary programs were installed to their locations without
> the .exe suffix == unuseable. OK, I checked all files in /usr/local/bin
> and added .exe to binary programs per script, but I don't like this as a
> solution.
ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Humblet_Pierre_A/install-cygwin-b20-sh
works fine for me. Download that shell script. Rename install.exe to
"cyg_install.exe". Rename this shell script to "install". Done.
>
> Has somebody something better? How do you "make install"?
>
> Stefan Petrucha
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-09-30 23:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-02 7:47 Stefan PETRUCHA
1999-09-02 8:22 ` Charles S. Wilson [this message]
1999-09-30 23:42 ` Charles S. Wilson
1999-09-30 23:42 ` Stefan PETRUCHA
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