From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29329 invoked by alias); 11 Jun 2012 14:43:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 29318 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Jun 2012 14:43:08 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org (HELO mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org) (204.13.248.71) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:42:54 +0000 Received: from pool-108-49-31-224.bstnma.fios.verizon.net ([108.49.31.224] helo=cgf.cx) by mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Se5pV-0001ao-IE for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:42:53 +0000 Received: from localhost (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A97313C0C1 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:42:52 -0400 (EDT) X-Mail-Handler: MailHop Outbound by DynDNS X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/mailhop/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX1/i6N2ybDqS1+vxiRPptnYl Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:43:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: make: .exe handling breaks kernel cross-compile Message-ID: <20120611144252.GA4004@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4FD4E21A.2080809@users.sourceforge.net> <20120610182927.GB32575@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4FD50A3D.9040201@users.sourceforge.net> <20120611042637.GB590@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4FD58A66.5060000@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4FD58A66.5060000@users.sourceforge.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-06/txt/msg00196.txt.bz2 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. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple