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Re: Cygwin RCS Build Instructions (or sometimes ash does not like a.out)
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- Subject: Re: Cygwin RCS Build Instructions (or sometimes ash does not like a.out)
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 08:02:46 -0700 (PDT)
--- Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
>
> ash wants files to have the executable bit set. Cygwin fakes this by looking
> for files with specific extensions and setting the bit in that case.
>
> '.out' is not one of the extensions.
>
IMO, .out should be considered as "one of the extensions". After all cmd.exe
will execute a file with a .out extension. At least on my NT4sp4 machine,
YMMV.
Cheers,
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Earnie Boyd
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