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Re: [PATCHES] patches for compiling GNU emacs 21.2 under Cygwin
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Roman Belenov |
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Re: [PATCHES] patches for compiling GNU emacs 21.2 under Cygwin |
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Thu, 28 Nov 2002 11:01:35 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) |
"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:
> I don't really understand why is it necessary to introduce
> _CYGWIN_EXE_SUFFIX. On Windows, there's no need to run "chmod a+rx"
> on *.exe programs.
On cygwin, it makes sense - cygwin's default behaviour on Windows
NT and derivative systems is to map Windows permissions (including
"Read&Execute") to its own POSIX-like ones, so chmod command above is
not a no-op.
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With regards, Roman.