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Re: Using Cygwin on NT 4.0 and Win2000; a user experience


Martin Buchholz wrote:
>>> - The "grep" package comes with a grep.exe (and no file "grep"), but
>>> no egrep.exe (instead it has a "egrep").  Of course this is easy for
>>> the user to fix, but the package should be fixed as well.
>
> Max> There is nothing wrong here - it doesn't need to be fixed.
>
> There is non-zero support in Sun's Java SDK to allow building using
> Cygwin tools (although MKS is the "official" supported platform).
> In one of the Makefiles is this line:
>
> EGREP          = $(UNIXCOMMAND_PATH)egrep.exe
>
> Arguably, this is bad code.  You should run a command via its name,
> sans any .EXE extension.  But Cygwin should be consistent; either all
> executables are named FOO, or they're named FOO.EXE.  Make up your mind.

Except that we are consistent. *Real* executables have an .exe suffix.
Symlinks don't.


Max.


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