Re: INSTALL mode

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From: david carlton
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 05:20

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In article <199211042120.AA01473@claude.cs.umb.edu>, karl@claude.cs.umb.edu (Karl Berry) writes:

> Autoconf 1.2 chooses to make the mode used with INSTALL_DATA be 0644,
> and INSTALL_PROGRAM be the default, which I guess is 0755.  Perhaps it
> would be more consistent with GNU's goals to make the default modes
> include group write permission.

Ick.

> Failing that (or in addition), perhaps
> the modes could be made more easily overridable in make (or even
> overridable by setting variables before running configure), as in

> $(INSTALL_PROGRAM_MODE) = 775
> $(INSTALL_DATA_MODE) = 664
> $(INSTALL_PROGRAM) -m $(INSTALL_PROGRAM_MODE)
> $(INSTALL_DATA) -m $(INSTALL_DATA_MODE)

Why not just edit the definitions of INSTALL_DATA and INSTALL_PROGRAM
in the Makefile?  No sense abstracting needlessly.

david carlton
carlton@husc.harvard.edu

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