Re: [PATCHES] 21.3.50 for Cygwin: patch 3

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>]

Thank you for working on this.

I have some comments, below.

On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Joe Buehler wrote:

> Some Cygwin commands (e.g. cp) work transparently with or without the .exe
> extension on an executable file, but some commands (e.g. ln, chmod,
> chgrp, chown) require the exact file name.

Is running a program via a Makefile rule one of those cases?  I'd think 
it isn't, in which case changes like this one:

>   TAGS:
> -	../lib-src/etags $(srcdir)/*.[ch]
> +	../lib-src/etags@EXEEXT@ $(srcdir)/*.[ch]

are unnecessary.

Btw, perhaps you should suggest to the Cygwin maintainers a change in the 
ported `install' (from GNU Fileutils/Coreutils) such that when invoked 
with a command "install foo /bin/foo" it will look for foo.exe if foo is 
not found.  That will make `install:' targets in Makefiles work out of 
the box.

> -	rm -f emacs-* emacs
> +	rm -f emacs-*@EXEEXT@ emacs@EXEEXT@

Why can't the "emacs-*" part be left alone here?  It does match file 
names that end in .exe, right?

> -	-rm -f emacs emacs-* ../etc/DOC*
> +	-rm -f emacs@EXEEXT@ emacs-*@EXEEXT@ ../etc/DOC*

Same here.