Re: Contrib PROGRAM problem

On 01/19/2013 12:13 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> On 01/18/2013 11:59 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> The above is the way it's done everywhere else in the source tree.
>>
>> I think the reason this works is that either make or the system call
>> that make uses is aware of this naming issue somehow.
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>
> Oh, hmm, all these years playing with this stuff and I never realized 
> msys make had these smarts built in, as it apparently does:
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>

*sigh*. Don't post after midnight. Of course, this isn't relevant to a 
cross-compiling environment, where repeated invocations of make 
repeatedly build the executables.

The question is whether we care enough about this case to fix it.

cheers

andrew