[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44753] [OF] control-2.8.0 won't install on Octave built for 64-b Windows

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #13, bug #44753 (project octave):

@comment 8:
It is needed to add '.' at the end of 'ar', otherwise Windows/MSYS loader will
silently add '.com', '.exe' or '.bat' to the file name :-)  (that Windows
loader is invoked behind the scenes after MSYS did its thing and hands the
stuff to the Windows universe)

I slowly began to suspect it must be the extension-less executables that
played havoc here, good that you finally pinpointed it down. 
I wonder what those executables are anyway - *nix executables? They *are*
binary files (most of them, that is; there are also some shell scripts).


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