Re: [PATCHES] patches for compiling GNU emacs 21.2 under Cygwin

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Roman Belenov wrote:

> "Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I don't really understand why is it necessary to introduce
> > _CYGWIN_EXE_SUFFIX.  On Windows, there's no need to run "chmod a+rx"
> > on *.exe programs.
> 
> On cygwin, it makes sense - cygwin's default behaviour on Windows
> NT and derivative systems is to map Windows permissions (including
> "Read&Execute") to its own POSIX-like ones, so chmod command above is
> not a no-op.

Sorry, I don't understand; please elaborate.  Do you mean to say that 
Cygwin's port of GCC produces *.exe programs whose Execute bit is not 
set?  In other words, if I say "gcc hello.c -o hello.exe", do you mean to 
say that the produced hello.exe cannot be immediately invoked, without 
running chmod on it first?