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From: David Starks-Browning <starksb AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk>
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Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 21:00:22 +0100 (GMT-0:00)
To: Ian Zimmerman <itz AT lbin DOT com>
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Subject: install.exe and make install can't handle executables?
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On Thursday 13 May 99, Ian Zimmerman writes:
> Hi, it looks like running "make install" pretty much on any GNU style
> package will fail because the makefile rule passes "foo" as the filename
> for install while the file that must be installed is "foo.exe".  Note
> that this _cannot_ be solved by telling "--program-suffix=.exe" to
> configure, because that only changes the destination name, not the
> source name.
> 
> Is there any solution to this, or am I just out of luck and have to copy
> files manually?  The problem with this is not so much my laziness as the
> fact that sometimes "make install" does other important things I don't
> want to miss.

Just replace install.exe with this one:

<ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Humblet_Pierre_A/install-cygwin-b20-sh>

Regards,
David

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