borg.exe in Linux package ?

[VVStz]

Hi,

I've just downloaded borg-linux-glibc231-x86_64.tgz

but inside it's a .exe ! in the root.

is that normal ?

Thanks.

[ThomasWaldmann]

Yes, that's normal.

Of course it is a bit weird as .exe is usually only seen on windows, but for our CI test runs and also the binaries distributed, we just use this convention, so that we need less special-casing - see also the 00_README.txt.

You can rename the files, of course, e.g. borg-1.4.3 or borg on Linux.

[VVStz]

Thanks @ThomasWaldmann

indeed the borg.exe is a ELF 64-but LSB executable for Linux.

But I would avoid at all cost naming it .exe !

[ThomasWaldmann]

Well, Linux and the other posix OSes do not care about name, so borg.exe works also.

But on Windows (our test suite also runs the tests on windows), only borg.exe works.

So we would either need to special case the binary name at multiple places - or just use borg.exe as we do now.