Re: permissions on autom4te.cache/ ?
On 2009-11-24, Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de wrote: -mkdir $cache, 0755 +mkdir $cache The umask argument to mkdir is required by older versions of Perl. I think it became optional in 5.6. I'm not sure if automake has a minimum Perl version it aims to support (it doesn't seem to declare on in the script itself in the latest version I have installed), but I notice NEWS says a Perl-5.6-ism was fixed in 1.8.3. Anyway, omitting the argument is documented as being the same as passing 0777 for it, so it's probably better to just specify it... Cheers, Olly
Re: permissions on autom4te.cache/ ?
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Hello Harlan,
thanks for the report.
* Harlan Stenn wrote on Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 08:28:18AM CET:
I'm real careful to set my umask to 2, as it is Important that
directories and files I create are able to be modified by others in the
group.
autom4te.cache/ is created with 755 perms.
Is there a good reason why my umask is being ignored when this directory
is being created?
This is definitely going on with 2.59, 2.61, and 2.64.
The
mkdir $cache, 0755
line has been in autom4te.in ever since that file was written. I'm not
sure why. Surely the user can just adjust her umask if she wants more
restrictive permissions, and should probably do so if she puts the cache
directory below, say, /tmp.
As a workaround, you should be able to just pre-create the cache
directory, or turn off caching altogether, see 'info Autoconf
Customizing autom4te'.
OK to install?
Cheers,
Ralf
Let umask govern permissions for autom4te.cache directory.
* bin/autom4te.in: Do not pass 0755 permissions to mkdir of
the cache directory.
Report by Harlan Stenn.
diff --git a/bin/autom4te.in b/bin/autom4te.in
index 2e7fc04..a51fa99 100644
--- a/bin/autom4te.in
+++ b/bin/autom4te.in
@@ -972,7 +972,7 @@ if ($freeze)
# We need our cache directory. Don't fail with parallel creation.
if (! -d $cache)
{
-mkdir $cache, 0755
+mkdir $cache
or -d $cache
or fatal cannot create $cache: $!;
}
Re: permissions on autom4te.cache/ ?
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