Re: transform2.test failure on Cygwin: replacing an executable with a script

[Peter Rosin]

Den 2010-08-13 19:32 skrev Ralf Wildenhues:
> * Peter Rosin wrote on Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 03:55:54PM CEST:
>> Den 2010-08-07 17:56 skrev Ralf Wildenhues:
>>>   install bla.exe .../inst/bin/foo.exe
>>>   install script.sh .../inst/bin/foo
>>>
>>> and the second one fails (to overwrite the foo.exe).  Does anybody
>>> happen to know if this is due to a change in Cygwin semantics?
> 
>> This sounds like a change in Cygwin exe-magic that I unfortunately
>> fail to find any reference to.
> 
> <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/119380>?
> I haven't read through it yet.

I skimmed it and that's not it. No one mentions any actual changes.

I did some more searching and found this in the changelog for the
cygwin dll version 1.7.2:

|  - Avoid overly agressive appending of .exe suffix when renaming Windows
|    executables.

Full message (but no more info):
"[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.2-1"
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-03/msg00826.html

There's also this, but that's in an experimental package...
"Updated [experimental]: coreutils-8.4-1"
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-03/msg00664.html

And this:
"the .exe extension"
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-03/msg00418.html

And this is bound to have some related bits:
"1.7.2?"
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2010-03/msg00000.html

But maybe I'm just remembering issues with .exe-magic that has nothing
to do with *this* issue.



If you haven't updated for a looong while, there's also this old thing
in the 1.5.20 announcement:

|  corinna: Improve and regularize search for files ending with .exe.

Full message:
"Updated: cygwin-1.5.20-1"
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2006-07/msg00000.html

Cheers,
Peter