Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 16:30:16 -0500 To: Andre Oliveira da Costa Cc: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: [mingw32] Re: [RFC] changing gcc default output executable na me (a.exe now) Message-ID: <20000113163016.A31403@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mail-Followup-To: Andre Oliveira da Costa , earnie_boyd@yahoo.com, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com References: <20000113202630.19220.qmail@web124.yahoomail.com> <002f01bf5e08$85316760$8400000a@costa.cadenet.com.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <002f01bf5e08$85316760$8400000a@costa.cadenet.com.br>; from costa@cade.com.br on Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 06:55:27PM -0200 On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 06:55:27PM -0200, Andre Oliveira da Costa wrote: >>I agree, Andre. I suggested, years ago now, that the .exe suffix be an >>optional configuration whose default is off. It isn't needed by the >>Bourne shells we use to execute the programs. I would like to see this >>as optional with say a GCC_SUFFIX=.exe environment variable. If >>GCC_SUFFIX exists it uses the value to append to the executable output >>file. > >It seems like a good (and simple) solution to me. With that, UNIX >software compiled directly from source would compile/install flawlessly >if GCC_SUFFIX is undefined or defined as an empty var. And, the folks >who need the .exe suffix (as stated by Matthew on a message to this >thread) could just add "export GCC_SUFFIX=" to their .bashrc startup >files. If someone wants to submit a patch to the gcc maintainers I'm sure that they will give it their attention. In fact, if you Cc me, I will talk to people at Cygnus about it and try to advocate that it be installed. I would suggest that somebody who feels strongly about it should start working on this ASAP. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com