>>>>> clock writes: > Hello > R-1.9.0 > when the user that compiles R has umask 027 and root has umask 022, then > R is installed incorrectly: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ R > /usr/bin/R: line 156: /usr/lib/R/bin/R.bin: Permission denied > /usr/bin/R: line 156: exec: /usr/lib/R/bin/R.bin: cannot execute: Success > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -la /usr/lib/R/bin/R.bin > -rwxr-x--- 1 root root 2032542 Jul 13 20:04 /usr/lib/R/bin/R.bin > ^^^
Thanks. This is due to using copy-if-change to avoid unnecessary copying for (at least) the main executable and the shared libraries under Unix. Now, copy-if-change of course uses "cp" for doing its work, whereas in the GNU build environment we would typically use $INSTALL and its variants for doing so (and the latter would always set the mode to 755 or 644 [for data]). The simplest fix to me seems to enhance copy-if-change to * Take an argument, say '-m', for specifying the mode, with 755 as the default; * Chmod $mode after the cp. I guess there is a similar issue with things "installed" by move-if-change. -k ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
