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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 22:13:48 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Automake 1.4l released -- show of hands from cygwin/automake maintainers?
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In-Reply-To: <87snes4u2y.fsf@creche.redhat.com>; from tromey@redhat.com on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 08:28:05PM -0600

[This is for the cygwin mailing list]
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 08:28:05PM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> writes:
>
>Charles> Nope.  It actually seems to be due to a change in automake.
>Charles> Apparently, make distcheck did not previously 'chmod -R a-w'.
>
>I looked a bit but due to massive reorganization it is a pain to find
>out when this went in.
>
>
>We rely on `cp -p' in a few places, all in `dist'.  The problem is
>most obvious in `distcheck' because it makes the tree read-only when
>it is unpacked.  But suppose you use something like CVSREAD and check
>out a tree.  Then a file like configure could very well be read-only,
>leading to the same problem for a simple `dist'.
>
>I think we could add a check for whether "cp -p works in ." to
>AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE and then use the result everywhere.  For this to work
>we'd also need to add code to `missing' to handle this case, I think
>(code I'm not entirely sure how to write -- ideally it would restore
>the original file's permissions once it was done with the copy).
>
>I think our goal should be to support this feature everywhere.  But if
>there aren't maintainers who need this in 1.5, I would prefer to file
>a PR and leave it until a later release.  If you are such a
>maintainer, please speak up.  Charles, are you?

Can we get a show of hands for people who are actually trying to use
automake as a *maintainer* under cygwin.

I suspect that this is not a big deal and that there is no reason to
force automake people to waste time on Cygwin's irregularities for
this release.

If a bunch of people step forward, however, then, obviously I'm wrong.

Again.

So, is anyone using automake in this capacity?  If you don't know what
I'm talking about then you undoubtedly are not using automake as
a maintainer.

cgf


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