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Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 08:29:53 -0400
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From: Jim Jagielski <jim@jaguNET.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 1.3: Cygwin specific changes to the build process
Cc: Stipe Tolj <tolj@wapme-systems.de>
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At 10:53 AM +0200 6/2/02, Stipe Tolj wrote:
>Jim Jagielski wrote:
>>
>> At 11:12 AM +0200 5/31/02, Stipe Tolj wrote:
>> >diff -ur apache-1.3/src/helpers/install.sh apache-1.3-cygwin/src/helpers/install.sh
>> >--- apache-1.3/src/helpers/install.sh  Tue Jun 12 10:24:53 2001
>> >+++ apache-1.3-cygwin/src/helpers/install.sh   Tue May 28 11:15:10 2002
>> >@@ -89,12 +89,8 @@
>> >
>> > #  Check if we need to add an executable extension (such as ".exe")
>> > #  on specific OS to src and dst
>> >-if [ -f "$src.exe" ]; then
>> >-  if [ -f "$src" ]; then
>> >-    : # Cygwin [ test ] is too stupid to do [ -f "$src.exe" ] && [ ! -f "$src" ]
>> >-  else
>> >-    ext=".exe"
>> >-  fi
>> >+if [ -f "$src.exe" ] && [ ! -f "$src." ]; then
>> >+  ext=".exe"
>> > fi
>> > src="$src$ext"
>> > dst="$dst$ext"
>>
>> Why the above change?? If [] is fixed, what about backwards compatibility?
>
>the problem is Cygwin's behaviour for the -f shell condition. I'll
>check if I can solve it on another way.
>

It's just that the comment in the present tree specifically says that
what it's being changed to doesn't work, so I'm wondering why it *is*
working now.
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