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Re: gcc produces foo.exe, not foo
- To: Arne Glenstrup <panic at diku dot dk>, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: gcc produces foo.exe, not foo
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 10:06:05 -0700 (PDT)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
---Arne Glenstrup <panic@diku.dk> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>
> Apologies if this question has been answered many times before, but I
> didn't seem to be able to find it in the mailing list archives via the
> search function.
>
> The problem is that it seems that when running
>
> gcc -o foo foo.c
>
> it produces not a file named foo, but a file named foo.exe. This has
> caused me problems when writing a Makefile somewhat like
>
> bar: foo.c
> gcc -o foo foo.c
> mv foo bar
>
> because it complains when trying to mv file foo.
>
> What is the standard way of circumventing this problem? Simply writing
>
Create a variable SUFFIX just like the variable PREFIX. SUFFIX should
not contain a value by default. Then do:
mv foo$(SUFFIX) bar$(SUFFIX)
==
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