Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm
Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com
Message-ID: <03F4742D8225D21191EF00805FE62B9904B3F125@aa-msg-01.medstat.com>
From: John Wiersba <John.Wiersba@medstat.com>
To: "'Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)'" <lhall@rfk.com>,
        "cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com" <cygwin@hotpop.com>
Subject: RE: not updating unwritable cache ../config.cache
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 18:15:25 -0500
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="ISO-8859-1"

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:lhall@rfk.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 4:27 PM
> To: John Wiersba; cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: not updating unwritable cache ../config.cache
> 
> 
> At 04:02 PM 3/24/00, John Wiersba wrote:
> >1)  The following never works for me
> >    [[ -w FILE ]] && echo ok
> >even if the file *is* writable by me.
> 
> 
> This is known.  You won't get the test to work unless the 
> permission you
> are checking is available "across the board".  Corinna has made some 
> changes to address this under NT/NTFS in later snapshots but 
> that won't
> be any solution for 9x platforms AFAIK.  You might want to 
> check your umask
> setting and make sure it doesn't mask out write permissions for group 
> and others...

I saw the "across the board" mentioned in the faq or user guide.  Is there a
work-around?  Perl's cpan command is totally broken because of this.

Is it fixed in one of the later snapshots?  I don't want to be on the
bleeding edge, but I do want to be able to compile the cygwin code on my
machine.  Is there a relatively stable snapshot I should upgrade to?

Thanks,
John


--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com