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Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 12:17:28 -0700
From: "Edward S. Peschko" <esp5 AT pge DOT com>
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Subject: Re: errors coming from building from scratch
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> Perhaps I'm missing something obvious but it seems to me that the real 
> question is why automake is installing things with the incorrect 
> permissions for you.  Is there a reason you're not focused on this issue?

Well, as a quick workaround I am focused on this issue (I install my own hacked 
version of automake) but there are two reasons why I think 777 perms is a bad policy
to follow:

    1) I think its going to be a hard issue to sell automake on the necessity 
       of making cygwin behave totally different from any other environment, 
       and make a kludge to have arguments to install for cygwin be 777 
       by default.

    2) down-the-stream packages don't necessarily use automake - they've 
       already got generated Makefile.in or configure scripts which have 644 
       hardcoded. Asking users to get a new version of automake and regenning 
       things using automake is too much to ask IMO.

    3) imo - philosophically its just wrong to require execute permissions 
       for the libraries. the program links with the libraries to use the 
       libraries functionality, it doesn't 'execute the library'.
 
Its not a question of whether or not I can hack around stuff, I can and will,
its a question of how clean people want the building process to be, and how
useful the tools are. As well as how close they mimic other unixes.

Ed

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