From: bje@cygnus.com (Ben Elliston) Subject: Re: gcc produces foo.exe, not foo 23 Sep 1998 17:05:21 -0700 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Arne Glenstrup Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com > What is the standard way of circumventing this problem? Simply writing > mv foo.exe bar.exe > is not a full solution, because that is not portable. Is it necessary to > write some autoconf stuff to check what the extension of the executable > resulting from calling gcc is? Yes, that's right. The next version of autoconf will have a new macro called `AC_EXEEXT' which will probe your system and make a subsitution variable available for your Makefile.in called @EXEEXT@. It typically has the value "" or ".exe". Ben - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".