On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
>| We currently perform the following sequence of commands as part of the
>| installation (-m 444 being the default on current FreeBSD systems).
> I can not see where freebsd could be getting a -m 444 from. The libraries
> are always installed with INSTALL_DATA and gcc's aclocal.m4 always sets that
> to INSTALL_DATA='${INSTALL} -m 644' if it is otherwise unset.
>
> Do have an INSTALL_DATA var set in your environment?
The FreeBSD ports system (/usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk) indeed sets
INSTALL_DATA= \
${INSTALL} ${COPY} ${_SHROWNGRP} -m ${SHAREMODE}
and SHAREMODE is set to 444 (in /usr/share/mk/bsd.own.mk).
Which does make sense, in general, but breaks ranlib without your fix.
Gerald
