Greg Hudson wrote:

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Please fix the makefile to set correct permissions.



On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 09:47, Bruce Elrick wrote:


umask is considered a 'local' setting; there are many reasons to set it to various values depending on your local circumstances. It would not make sense to set it in the makefile of a software package; someone else would have a problem with that overriding their umask settings and wondering why this was done.


While this is a perfectly valid viewpoint, it is quite non-standard. APR should be using "install" in its install rule, not "cp", for
consistency with other software packages.




True enough. I had neglected to think about that.

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