From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com>
To: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>,
"cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com" <cygwin@hotpop.com>
Subject: Re: No such file or directory
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 20:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4.3.2.20000325225920.00d3c7b0@pop.ma.ultranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000325224827.A30310@cygnus.com>
At 10:48 PM 3/25/00, Chris Faylor wrote:
>On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 10:40:13PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> >Looks to me like your big problem is the install program which assumes the
> >UNIX convention of executables without extensions (.exe). It looks for
> >remind and not remind.exe, which is what exists.
>
>I wonder if it would really be a big deal if cygwin, by default, found a
>file "foo.exe" if there was no existing file "foo".
>
>We keep running into this problem and I wonder if implementing this in
>cygwin would solve more problems than it causes.
>
>cgf
Its been a while but isn't there already something in there that does the
reverse for executables in general? I should go looking. My guess is what
I'm remembering is a related but different topic.
But I agree with you. This is a common "problem" of the configure/make/
install sequence of GNU packages on Cygwin and, although its not a big deal
to work with once you understand it, it does generate list traffic regularly.
I guess I'm wondering why the alternate install script solution that has been
"floated" in the past is not something Cygwin uses now. I admit I never
looked that closely at it. If it does the right job, the thing that I
think is good about it is that it targets the problem in the context of
installs, which seems to be where the problem lies...
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-03-24 14:41 Eric Goforth
2000-03-25 13:07 ` Terry Lincoln
2000-03-25 19:44 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2000-03-25 19:50 ` Chris Faylor
2000-03-25 20:11 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [this message]
2000-03-26 9:06 ` Chris Faylor
2000-03-27 7:25 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
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2008-06-26 9:35 ` Dave Korn
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2007-07-12 12:38 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2004-12-06 23:49 no " Kevin Smith
2002-12-13 16:03 No " ganglio
2000-03-27 6:01 Earnie Boyd
2000-03-27 7:56 ` Chris Faylor
2000-03-27 5:56 Earnie Boyd
2000-03-27 7:51 ` Chris Faylor
2000-03-26 16:11 Rick Rankin
2000-03-26 15:02 Rick Rankin
2000-03-26 15:09 ` Chris Faylor
2000-03-25 20:13 Rick Rankin
2000-03-26 9:13 ` Chris Faylor
2000-03-27 14:23 ` Michael Hirmke
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