Re: AS_EXECUTABLE_P again

[Eric Blake]

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> But this may cause problems on MS-DOS derivations.
> Lets suppose that we have a file named foo.exe, but not foo.
> Both DJGPP and Cygwin have extensions which cause `test -x foo' to succeed.
> But `test -f' fails, so the whole AS_EXECUTABLE_P(foo) fails too.

Actually, `test -f foo' only fails on foo.exe on DJGPP (at least,
according to claims - I don't have a DJGPP environment to test on) - it
works on cygwin.
$ gcc -o foo foo.c
$ ls
foo.c foo.exe
$ test -f foo; echo $?
0
$ test -x foo; echo $?
0
$ test -f none; echo $?
1
$ test -x none; echo $?
1


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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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