[Libreoffice] cygwin soffice.bin.exe -> soffice.bin gotcha

Caolán McNamara caolanm at redhat.com
Wed Sep 21 07:49:08 PDT 2011


On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 16:13 +0200, Noel Grandin wrote:
> what version of cp are you using? (cp --version)

$ touch soffice.bin.exe
$ cp soffice.bin.exe soffice.bin
cp: cannot create regular file `soffice.bin': File exists
$ cp --version
cp (GNU coreutils) 8.10
Packaged by Cygwin (8.10-1)

tor pointed me to some scary hacks in solenv/bin/deliver.pl in the old
build system to workaround this, i.e. search for 
"hack to survive automatically added .exe for executables"

C.



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