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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] docs: describe the QEMU build system structu
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] docs: describe the QEMU build system structure / design |
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Wed, 23 Sep 2015 10:47:48 -0600 |
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On 09/23/2015 09:52 AM, John Snow wrote:
>>> +Windows platform portability
>>> +----------------------------
>>> +
>>> +On Windows all binaries have a 'exe' suffix, so all the Makefile rules
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>> This was
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>> "a .exe suffix"
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>> before, and Jon commented that you probably pronounced it as "a dot-exe
>> suffix".
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>> Now you've removed the dot, but haven't changed "a" into "an". :)
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> Ah, I didn't realize he changed this -- I wasn't actually recommending
> that you change it, it was supposed to just be an observation.
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> "a .exe" or "an exe" are both correct in my mind and you can use
> whichever you find reads easiest.
Actually, the full suffix is the four bytes '.exe', when compared to the
non-windows binaries. So I'd rather see:
On Windows, all binaries have the suffix ".exe", so all Makefile...
(note how I cleverly avoided the need for an indefinite article)
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
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