fixlet

diff --git a/lib/am/program.am b/lib/am/program.am
index 3d8d411..a4ca3e6 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/am/program.am
+++ b/lib/am/program.am
@@ -17,4 +17,11 @@
 ## 02111-1307, USA.
 @PROGRAM@: $(@XPROGRAM@_OBJECTS) $(@XPROGRAM@_DEPENDENCIES)
        $(@XLINK@) $(@XPROGRAM@_LDFLAGS) $(@XPROGRAM@_OBJECTS) $(@XPROGRAM@_LDADD) $(LIBS)
-CYGWIN @test -n "$(EXEEXT)" && echo timestamp > @PROGRAM@
+## Why take such a funny approach to Cygwin32 executables?  Why not
+## just rewrite this file to PROGRAM$(EXEEXT), and then rewrite
+## foo_PROGRAMS similarly?  Because then EXTRA_PROGRAMS won't work
+## correctly -- every configure.in will have to know to add $(EXEEXT)
+## when putting a program name into a variable.  By doing things this
+## way we can get Cygwin32 support by adding a single macro to
+## configure.in and then re-running automake.
+CYGWIN @test -z "$(EXEEXT)" || echo timestamp > @PROGRAM@

diff --git a/program.am b/program.am
index 3d8d411..a4ca3e6 100644 (file)
--- a/program.am
+++ b/program.am
@@ -17,4 +17,11 @@
 ## 02111-1307, USA.
 @PROGRAM@: $(@XPROGRAM@_OBJECTS) $(@XPROGRAM@_DEPENDENCIES)
        $(@XLINK@) $(@XPROGRAM@_LDFLAGS) $(@XPROGRAM@_OBJECTS) $(@XPROGRAM@_LDADD) $(LIBS)
-CYGWIN @test -n "$(EXEEXT)" && echo timestamp > @PROGRAM@
+## Why take such a funny approach to Cygwin32 executables?  Why not
+## just rewrite this file to PROGRAM$(EXEEXT), and then rewrite
+## foo_PROGRAMS similarly?  Because then EXTRA_PROGRAMS won't work
+## correctly -- every configure.in will have to know to add $(EXEEXT)
+## when putting a program name into a variable.  By doing things this
+## way we can get Cygwin32 support by adding a single macro to
+## configure.in and then re-running automake.
+CYGWIN @test -z "$(EXEEXT)" || echo timestamp > @PROGRAM@