On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Russ Allbery wrote:
Miles Bader <mi...@gnu.org> writes:
[Relying on source-code execute bits always being correctly maintained
is one of those things that ... well... doesn't really feel very robust.
I dunno, maybe it's just me...]
Doesn't every package with a configure script rely on this? I suppose
that people could chmod +x the configure script before running it, but
I've never had to do that.
Not all operating systems support the notion of "execute bits",
including the most popular operating system.
Bob
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