I read messages about this from others in various list archives. I am using cygwin. uname -a tells me: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 myhost 1.5.12(0.116/4/2) 2004-11-10 08:34 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin
/etc/setup/installed.db says I have fileutils-4.1-2.tar.bz2 cp --version says I have: cp (fileutils) 4.1 http://www.cygwin.com/packages/fileutils/ seems to indicate I have the newest version. Is there a patch against the official fileutils (before coreutils) or do I need to do it myself to see the changes? Anyways, I want to cp to magically see the .exe and copy correctly. Example of error: cp: `/home/jreed/tmp/bmake/bmake' and `/home/jreed/pkg/bin/bmake' are the same file "are the same file" is the wrong message. I am helping port the pkgsrc build structure to cygwin. pkgsrc is a portable package building system for Linux, NetBSD, Darwin, Mac OS X, Irix, SunOS/Solaris, AIX, HPUX, BSD/OS, FreeBSD, Interix and other operating systems for managing over 5000 software suites. It provides: 1) a categorized collection of specifications that help automate fetching, checking checksums, patching, configuring, building, installing and packaging software suites; 2) package installation and maintenance tools (like pkg_add, pkg_info, pkg_delete and others). Visit http://www.pkgsrc.org/ for information. I am hoping to just improve cp to do the right thing versus fixing numerous places that use it. Or maybe I can get gcc to stop saving with ".exe" suffix. It appears I don't need ".exe" for my executables to work. Any ideas on how to get gcc to not automatically append an ".exe". I looked in FAQ and didn't see either of these issues covered. Thank you, Jeremy C. Reed BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
