RE: [PATCH] A better (?) _AC_EXEEXT

[Bernard Dautrevaux]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Akim Demaille [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 6:31 PM
> To: Pavel Roskin
> Cc: Morten Eriksen; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] A better (?) _AC_EXEEXT
> 
> 
        ...
> 
> | > Aha. How about the attached patch, then?
> | 
> | > +  if (test conftest -ef conftest.exe) >/dev/null 2>&1; then
> | 
> | Why do you want to set ac_exeext to ".exe" is conftest is 
> the same as
> | conftest.exe? 
> 
> No idea, I guess Morten has his own idea about that :)
> 

Probably because quite a lot of native Win32 (and probably also DOS or OS/2)
programs will not recognize "conftest" as an executable, while
"conftest.exe" will be :-)

Regards,

        Bernard

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