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Subject: Re: .exe magic reloaded
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>> That's what Perls "Configure" does. Still the magic works only in the
>> target directory, but not on the level of the symlink itself.
>
> Uh, I see. =A0That's a bug in perl's Configure. =A0It shouldn't use the
> .exe suffix at all.
>
>

Right, Perl wants to be superschlau and adds the .exe suffix. That
would work in Cygwins standard locations, where /bin and /usr/bin
seems to be the same.

Is this a Bug on the side of Perls "Configure" or rather a limitation
in Cygwins .exe magic? As there is no official standard, how to deal
with this, it remains a point of philosophy. So far it was the only
case in 30 packages I compiled.

Al

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