Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com To: Charles Wilson Cc: Robert Collins , cygwin@Cygwin.Com, Bernard Dautrevaux , "'Tim Van Holder'" , automake@gnu.org Subject: Re: Automake 1.4l released References: <3B7974C6.83934084@yahoo.com> <3B797B22.C06C71D9@yahoo.com> <87bslip7hj.fsf@creche.redhat.com> <20010814195923.A28367@redhat.com> <87wv46uoac.fsf@creche.redhat.com> <997839007.16944.3.camel@robertlinux> <3B79DED8.3040807@ece.gatech.edu> X-Zippy: Dehydrated EGGS are STREWN across ROULETTE TABLES.. X-Attribution: Tom Reply-To: tromey@redhat.com From: Tom Tromey Date: 15 Aug 2001 20:28:05 -0600 In-Reply-To: Charles Wilson's message of "Tue, 14 Aug 2001 22:30:48 -0400" Message-ID: <87snes4u2y.fsf@creche.redhat.com> Lines: 27 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.5 >>>>> "Charles" == Charles Wilson writes: Charles> Nope. It actually seems to be due to a change in automake. Charles> Apparently, make distcheck did not previously 'chmod -R a-w'. I looked a bit but due to massive reorganization it is a pain to find out when this went in. We rely on `cp -p' in a few places, all in `dist'. The problem is most obvious in `distcheck' because it makes the tree read-only when it is unpacked. But suppose you use something like CVSREAD and check out a tree. Then a file like configure could very well be read-only, leading to the same problem for a simple `dist'. I think we could add a check for whether "cp -p works in ." to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE and then use the result everywhere. For this to work we'd also need to add code to `missing' to handle this case, I think (code I'm not entirely sure how to write -- ideally it would restore the original file's permissions once it was done with the copy). I think our goal should be to support this feature everywhere. But if there aren't maintainers who need this in 1.5, I would prefer to file a PR and leave it until a later release. If you are such a maintainer, please speak up. Charles, are you? Tom -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/