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Re: Don't create bogus a.exe in mingw directory
- To: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: Don't create bogus a.exe in mingw directory
- From: egor duda <deo at logos-m dot ru>
- Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 22:56:55 +0300
- Organization: deo
- References: <172209443724.20011104213910@logos-m.ru><3BE59A87.4D83DCA2@yahoo.com>
- Reply-To: egor duda <cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com>
Hi!
Sunday, 04 November, 2001 Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com wrote:
EB> egor duda wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Now we're creating unneeded (and not cleaned by 'make clean') a.exe
>> file during make of mingw10.dll. here's a patch to fix it.
>>
EB> Why not just add a remove of a.exe in the clean? I.E.: Why add the -o
EB> mingwthrd_dummy.exe?
1) if, for some reason, a.exe is changed to, say, a.out it'll stop
working. i don't like to rely on defaults. they change sometimes.
2) if one see stale mingwthrd_dummy.exe in his build directory it's
clear where it's coming from (just by looking at Makefile). it takes
me some time to figure out who's creating a.exe
initially, i wanted to add '-o /dev/null' instead of '-o mingwthrd_dummy.exe',
but then thought that it probably won't work with native mingw
compiler.
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