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 12:09:15 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Permission denied calling configure on Win95 Message-ID: <20030306170915.GA7674@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20030306155109.GA1996@redhat.com> <20030306165025.GC7183@redhat.com> <5182-Thu06Mar2003170055+0000-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5182-Thu06Mar2003170055+0000-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 05:00:55PM +0000, David Starks-Browning wrote: >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? This is supposed to be fixed in 1.3.21, so we can hold off on the FAQ. I was going to release 1.3.21 today but I see there is one more problem with exim. >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? The -R means change everything within the directory as well as the directory. cgf -- 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/