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Date:	Tue, 14 Aug 2001 22:30:48 -0400
From:	Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To:	Robert Collins <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
CC:	tromey AT redhat DOT com, cygwin AT Cygwin DOT Com,
	Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux AT microprocess DOT com>,
	"'Tim Van Holder'" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>, automake AT gnu DOT org
Subject:	Re: Automake 1.4l released
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Robert Collins wrote:

> On 14 Aug 2001 19:04:11 -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
>>
>>True.  As far as I know nobody ever tried `make distcheck' on Cygwin
>>before.  In fact this is the first time I've heard of anybody using
>>Cygwin as their primary maintainer platform for an automake-using
>>project.
>>
> 
> I did 90% of my squid automake conversion (waiting for automake 1.5
> before it can be considered for squid-HEAD merging) on cygwin. make
> distcheck worked fine with no errors (once other issues with distcheck
> were solved - but they weren't cygwin-specific).
> 
> I haven't piped up to now, cause I had nothing to offer on this bug...
> however for the record:
> 
> This cp -p error on (cygwin/ntfs/ntsec on), while interesting, is either
> a) new due to changes in cygwin since I did the squid automake stuff (ie
> in last 3-4 months)
> b) interesting, but not the core reason for distcheck failing.

Nope.  It actually seems to be due to a change in automake.  Apparently, 
make distcheck did not previously 'chmod -R a-w'.  At least, that's how 
I interpret Alexandre Duret-Lutz's email on the automake list:

 > chmod -R a-w is done by the distcheck target (not distdir) to
 > make sure a distribution can work even from a read-only
 > filesystem (such as a CDROM).  This test was not done in 1.4.

"This test" being the "remove all write perms and pretend we're on a 
CDROM".  (Sure, 'make distcheck' existed in 1.4, but not with the a-w 
thing).

So, when you were using automake with squid, you still had write perms 
on the files and thus 'cp -p' worked without problems.

Hypothesis: if you built and installed automake-1.4l, and then tried to 
re-autotool your squid source tree, it would fail make distcheck even if 
you use the same cygwin1.dll that you were using 3-4 months ago.

--Chuck


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