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Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 23:04:52 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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Subject: Nice work, cygwin-1.3.18
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In automake-devel, there has been a long-standing test failure 
('subobj9').  It now passes, and I think it's because of Corinna and 
Pierre's work with permissions in 1.3.18.

A case of virtual beer each!

Here's the old "problem summary"

subobj9:
   Fails in 'make distcheck' (actually during the distdir: target)
   because non-root is not allowed to preserve ownership on the
   target file: config.guess.  Okay, config.guess is a symlink to
   the "real" one in /usr/autotool/devel/...  The "real" one is
   owned by Administrator.  'cp -p' follows the link, and tries to
   set the ownership of the new copy to 'Administrator' -- which
   fails, of course.
     On linux, 'cp -p the_symlink destination/new_name' behaves thus,
     where 'the_symlink' points to 'the_target'.
     1) new_name is created as an actual file, not a symlink
        (so does cygwin)
     2) file permissions from the_target are replicated on new_name.
     3) NO adjustments are made to the ownership or group of new_name.
        Those are not replicated from new_name's owner/group, NOR
        from the_symlink's owner/group.

     On cygwin, all of the attributes from the_target are applied
     to the new copy.  Except that normal users aren't allowed to
     change ownership or change group to a group they are not a
     member of.  Since the_target is /usr/autotool/devel/...

   Fix: correct the behavior of cygwin's cp.exe...
--------------------------

Well, apparently cp.exe wasn't the problem -- since I'm still using the 
same one as before.

Dec 6, 2002:  automake-devel-1.7.2-1, cygwin-1.3.17, fileutils-4.1-1
   failed this test.

Since then, only cygwin has been updated; fileutils (cp.exe) is the same 
version.

Jan 5, 2003: automake-devel-1.7.2-1, cygwin-1.3.18, fileutils-4.1-1
   pass this test.

Way to go!

--Chuck


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