I discovered the hard way, when building ImageMagick-6.7.9.4 on
9.1-RELEASE, that having root's umask set to 077 is a mistake.
Lots of directories and some files, in ImageMagick itself and some of the
dependent ports, had other and group perms set to ---. No good. Hard to
fix after the fact:
Hello,
I hav seen this on FreeBSD 6-stable recently.
Here is an example, from a machine running
[EMAIL PROTECTED] uname -a
FreeBSD kg-work.kg4.no 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #2: Sat Jan 20 17:26:43
CET 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SS51G i386
I cd into /usr/ports/audio/gxmms2
I just heard a most interest tale of woe. A new user installing
4.3-Release wanted some ports. I gave him specific instructions, in
writing, on how to build those ports. For some reason he ignored the
step to cd to the specific port and did essentially:
cd /usr/ports
make
The system dutifu