On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 02:53:25PM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote:
: | This test will report `' on Cygwin caused by some Cygwin magic. Even though
: | the file is named `conftest.exe', doing `ls conftest' will return `conftest',
: | and doing `test -f conftest' will return true. Doing a plain `ls' will not
: | return that virtual file, though. You therefore need to "test for" (read: ls)
: | the .exe extension first.
:
: Lars, what's the point? I'm lost. If conftest is OK, why do you want
: conftest.exe?
I doubt it is OK. You probably don't want to tell non-cygwin utilities to output
to `program' instead of `program.exe'. If you end up with a `program' file and not
the intended `program.exe' (given that the utility understands your request at all),
you are then f***ed when you move the binaries to another system without Cygwin.
Lars J
