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Re: [mingw32] Re: [RFC] changing gcc default output executable name (a.exe now)
- To: Andre Oliveira da Costa <costa at cade dot com dot br>
- Subject: Re: [mingw32] Re: [RFC] changing gcc default output executable name (a.exe now)
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna at vinschen dot de>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 18:36:30 +0100
- CC: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <001901bf5df6$428a2170$8400000a@costa.cadenet.com.br>
Andre Oliveira da Costa wrote:
> [...]
> I don't think tweaking all these applications to look for "foo.exe" if they
> can't find "foo" would be the right thing. But I would really like to be
> able to install the applications I compile without having to tweak all the
> makefiles. Maybe the solution would be not to add the .exe suffix...
I agree. It would be nice if gcc would not add .exe automatically.
Maybe it's not a 'modern' solution but it's the way, cc produces
executables since french revolution:
No output name given: a.out is created,
-o foo: foo is created.
That's it and it's ok.
IMHO.
Corinna
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