From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: make: .exe handling breaks kernel cross-compile
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:43:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120611144252.GA4004@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FD58A66.5060000@users.sourceforge.net>
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 01:04:22AM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>>
>On 2012-06-10 23:26, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> If there is a bug it is with make ever equating foo.exe with foo. It's
>> undoubtedly happening because of Cygwin's attempts at transparency.
>>
>> I'm not kidding about EXEEXT. Surely you know about this from having
>> maintained cygport.
>
>Am I ever, but I suspect *you* know that incorporating EXEEXT into the
>Linux kernel buildsystem will likely never be accepted upstream.
>>On 2012-06-10 14:29, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>Makefiles which expect .exe extensions usually use the EXEEXT variable
>>>for just this purpose. Linux's makefile doesn't do that for probably
>>>obvious reasons.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-10 18:06 Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2012-06-10 18:29 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-06-10 20:57 ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2012-06-11 4:26 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-06-11 6:04 ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2012-06-11 14:43 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
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