X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,SPF_NEUTRAL,TW_RW,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4D710427.4000306@cornell.edu> Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:24:23 -0500 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010 References: <4D7006CD DOT 5060608 AT alice DOT it> In-Reply-To: <4D7006CD.5060608@alice.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 3/3/2011 4:23 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > The last steps of installation regard the generation of format file for > all users (-rw-r--r-- root root), but with recent snapshots the format > file are creted only for root (-rwx-----+) (**) : these permissions > resemble those created when one installs native Windows applications > ('c:\Program files' is full of similar files). This reminds me of the discussion starting at http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-11/msg00922.html in which patching a file unexpectedly changed the permissions. The issue turned out to be related to the ACLs on the temporary director used by patch. In the present situation, the texlive installer calls fmtutil-sys to create the format files. I think fmtutil creates the files in a temporary directory (using TMPDIR, TEMP, or TMP if they exist) and then mv's them. Could this be your problem? What happens if you unset those variables before installing texlive? This is just a wild guess, and I'm not sure it explains why the problem first shows up in recent snapshots. Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple