-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Andreas Schwab on 5/30/2007 8:50 AM: > > There are many more bogus permissions in the package. In fact, almost > all files have bogus permissions.
Indeed, looking at the tarball, there are a number of files with execute permissions that do not need them, and a number of files with execute permissions for user but not group. I've traced my problem in this instance to the fact that I used Windows file restore mechanisms a couple months ago (which are notoriously lousy at executable bits) to transfer files to a new hard drive; fortunately Cygwin does a better job at maintaining sane file permissions if they are sane to begin with. I'll clean up the mess, and make sure the 1.4.10 tarball is a lot nicer (everything 644 or 755). Thanks for bringing it to my attention. However, I take some comfort that having a file marked executable when it does not need to be is more of a cosmetic issue than a functional one; and that the only show-stopper was having test-closein.sh not executable. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGXhB884KuGfSFAYARAixaAKDKq2BWif19E+u0T4/gyMl9ad7AhACdFXU1 7FAjWPsPolpeXo/lK/FQVEw= =He3A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-m4 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-m4
