Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 Subject: RE: gcc builds executables but they're not executable? Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 19:52:36 -0400 Message-ID: <83040F98B407E6428FEC18AC720F5D732DB734@exchange.tropicnetworks.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Rolf Campbell" To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g9HNqq104760 Your /etc/passwd file is not valid. I fixed mine using "mkpasswd -du mywinusername > /etc/passwd", I'm not sure what the 'right thing' to do is. -Rolf > -----Original Message----- > From: Lane, Frank L [mailto:frank.l.lane@boeing.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 7:44 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: gcc builds executables but they're not executable? > > > Okay, I'm trying to do some stuff with time so downloaded the > gnu time command from the install site. A couple of other > things also got grabbed, I think they were texinfo and fi I > forget. Point being now when I build an executable it's not > executable and chmod won't let me make it executable. I > thought I saw this discussed on the list recently but > couldn't find it in the archive. WTF did I do! and how can I undo it. > > Thanks, > Frank > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/