As usual, it is never that easy. The real question is the interface to specifying the permission bits, and any owed/group user ids. What I have works for me but maybe not everyone.
Here is what I use. It may not work on Windows but then I suspect the install issues on Windows are different. I do use this on the OSX. Sounds like I should update my octal constant from recent emails! env['INSTALL']=installFunc env['INSTALL_GROUP']='mygroup'env['INSTALL_MODE']=0710 # leading 0 implies octal *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Rob Managan email managan at llnl.gov LLNL phone: 925-423-0903 P.O. Box 808, L-095 FAX: 925-422-3389 Livermore, CA 94551-0808 On 5/2/14 8:57 AM, "Russel Winder" <rus...@winder.org.uk> wrote: >On Fri, 2014-05-02 at 15:45 +0000, Managan, Rob wrote: >> Since this issue was raised I thought I would refresh another one. >> >> Every year or two we get a request about Install functions. I have one >> that allows the user to not only install a file in a location but set >>the >> owner and group Ids along with the permission bits on Unix. >> >> Is this something that should get into the core code or just remain a >>user >> function? Scons does let you replace the default function with your own >> nicely. > >If these are drop in replacements for Install and InstallAs, I'd vote >for replacing the current versions in the core. > >-- >Russel. >========================================================================== >=== >Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: >sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net >41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk >London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder > >_______________________________________________ >Scons-dev mailing list >Scons-dev@scons.org >http://two.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/scons-dev _______________________________________________ Scons-dev mailing list Scons-dev@scons.org http://two.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/scons-dev
