From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6891 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2005 14:59:00 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 24 Oct 2005 14:59:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 81487 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2005 14:58:54 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 24 Oct 2005 14:58:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 28106 invoked by alias); 24 Oct 2005 14:58:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 21928 Received: (qmail 28097 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2005 14:58:50 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 24 Oct 2005 14:58:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 81146 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2005 14:58:49 -0000 Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net (206.46.252.46) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 24 Oct 2005 14:58:49 -0000 Received: from candle.brasslantern.com ([71.116.81.225]) by vms046.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2 HotFix 0.04 (built Dec 24 2004)) with ESMTPA id <0IOV00AJ2DLT2C10@vms046.mailsrvcs.net> for zsh-workers@sunsite.dk; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 09:58:42 -0500 (CDT) Received: from candle.brasslantern.com (IDENT:schaefer@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by candle.brasslantern.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j9OEwf9j019593 for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 07:58:41 -0700 Received: (from schaefer@localhost) by candle.brasslantern.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id j9OEwfHb019592 for zsh-workers@sunsite.dk; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 07:58:41 -0700 Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:58:41 +0000 From: Bart Schaefer Subject: Re: zshall.1 In-reply-to: To: Zsh hackers list Message-id: <1051024145841.ZM19591@candle.brasslantern.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <20051024080141.GA18213@fermat.math.technion.ac.il> Comments: In reply to Peter Stephenson "Re: zshall.1" (Oct 24, 10:03am) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 On Oct 24, 10:03am, Peter Stephenson wrote: } Subject: Re: zshall.1 } } I'm not sure what use people put the --program-suffix option to; it's } possibly they expect to be able to rename the files to the base programme No. The normal use of --program-suffix would be e.g. --program-suffix=.exe so that e.g. "cc -o zsh main.o init.o ..." becomes "cc -o zsh.exe ..." when using a unix-oriented build system on a Cygwin-type platform where the underlying OS requires a file extension to create an executable. It's not supposed to affect anything but the binaries, and for Zvi to expect it to rename things inside the manual pages -- or for zsh's build to already be doing so in some cases -- is unusual. We can co-opt it in the way that 21924 and 21926 have (because zsh has already got a different mechanism for appending .exe) but I'm sure that, somewhere, Richard Stallman is frowning. (Of course, he was probably frowning anyway.)