[CMake] EXECUTE_PROCESS too good at running programs

[William A. Hoffman]

At 04:21 PM 7/21/2006, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
>My test is plenty reliable.  I have ***makeinfo***, not makeinfo.exe.  Please read *ALL* the details of my post.  There are ~30 tools in E:\msys\1.0\bin that do not have .exe suffixes, run fine under a MSYS shell, and are not intended to be run under anything but a MSYS shell.  EXECUTE_PROCESS is finding a way to run them.  My wild-assed-guess as to explanation, is that it execs arbitrarily named files, and does not check whether the filename is valid for a Windows command prompt.  These MSYS tools are probably valid apps in some Windows-native sense, but not to a Windows command prompt.
My msys has a makeinfo.exe and not a makeinfo.

Cygwin:

$ ls /cygdrive/c/msys/1.0/bin/makeinfo.exe
/cygdrive/c/msys/1.0/bin/makeinfo.exe

msys:

Hoffman at VOGON /bin
$ ls -l makeinfo.exe makeinfo
-rwxr-xr-x    1 Hoffman  Administ   180224 Mar 16  2004 makeinfo
-rwxr-xr-x    1 Hoffman  Administ   180224 Mar 16  2004 makeinfo.exe


But from dos there is no makeinfo:
C:\msys\1.0\bin>dir makeinfo.exe
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 78BB-7820

 Directory of C:\msys\1.0\bin

03/16/2004  01:32 PM           180,224 makeinfo.exe
               1 File(s)        180,224 bytes


-Bill