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 Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 17:00:55 +0000 Message-ID: <5182-Thu06Mar2003170055+0000-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: cygwin@cygwin.com CC: khamed@progese.com Subject: Re: Permission denied calling configure on Win95 In-Reply-To: <20030306165025.GC7183@redhat.com> References: <20030306155109.GA1996@redhat.com> <20030306165025.GC7183@redhat.com> On Thursday 6 Mar 03, Christopher Faylor writes: > Before you do that, however, you might want to try this: > > cd / > chmod -R a+r . > chmod -R a+x bin sbin usr/sbin usr/local/bin lib/gcc-lib > > If you get errors from the "a+x" line above that's ok. This needs to get into the FAQ. But first I'd like to understand what's going on. Do we know why or whether it's read permission or execute permission or both? If just execute permission, assuming it's not already solved by changes to setup.exe, couldn't it be handled by mounting those directories as executable? Sorry, but I tend to skip stuff until it's becoming a FAQ, but by then the technical background is lost to me. (At least, harder to dig out and I have very little time for this.) Actually I asked Karim to send me "ls -l /bin" for example, privately, so I could look at this. Thanks, David -- 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/