On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Ralph Hempel <> wrote: > I'd just like to clear up some confusion on my part > about "install" as distributed with Cygwin. > > I'm building Lua, an MIT licensed scripting language. > > Part of the lua "make install" process calls install > as follows: > > cd src && install -p -m 0755 lua luac /usr/local/bin > > And sure enough, lua and luac show up in /usr/local/bin > > But they exist as src/lua.exe and src/luac.exe > > So the question is, is it install or the cygwin dll that > assumes the exe extension on the file in the source dir > and then removes it when installing it to the destination? > > Ralph > > PS. I'm willing to maintain a Lua (and significant libraries) > port for distribution with Cygwin >
Does this help? http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#id318321 -Jason -- 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/
