Den 2010-08-07 17:56 skrev Ralf Wildenhues: > I'm seeing a presumably new failure on Cygwin that I don't remember > seeing before. The gist is the following: transform2.test tries > something like > > 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? > > If yes, then the question is whether we should work around it somehow, > like removing the old program first, so that 'make install' of a package > upgrade that reimplements some program as a script might fail; OTOH, > this should probably be done on w32 only, since foo might be a tool used > during installation (such as 'install'). Ouch. > > I can't see why an Automake bug should be involved in this failure.
This sounds like a change in Cygwin exe-magic that I unfortunately fail to find any reference to. I sure do remember recent (this year approximately) problem descriptions in this area from the Cygwin mailing list anyway... Cheers, Peter