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From: Karl Berry
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 11:20

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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.  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)

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Subject: INSTALL mode
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