[ant-contrib - Help] cc outfile not consistant

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By: mike-al

I've come to learn that when you specify an "outfile" in the cc task, the task
may modify the actual outfile by adding a prefix and/or extension.  Keyword:
"may".  This seems absurd to me.  In my post-compile I have to create a symbolic
link to the outfile.  How am I supposed to create a symbolic link to a file
I'm not guaranteed to know the exact name of?  Not to mention run-time scripts
that need to call the executable name, or other apps that need to link in a
library I create.  Adding prefixes and postfixes to the outfile is a nice feature
if and only if its guaranteed every time.  Otherwise it will do more harm then
good.

Does anyone know how to guarantee your outfile will remain what you specify?
When compiling/linking a library, I added my own prefix (lib) and extension
(.a) to my outfile, and the cc-task still added its own prefix and extension.
So the target ended up being named: liblibMyLib.a.a.  And when I compile/link
an executable, cc task does not add the .exe extension.  So should I add my
own .exe extenstion?  Only to find out on some other platform cc-task will add
as well?  No consistancy.

FYI, at the moment, I'm doing all my compiling on a Unix w/s, using Solaris-8.



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