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2 total messages Started by Karl Berry Wed, 04 Nov 1992 11:20

#67

Author: 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)

Re: INSTALL mode

#1019

Author: 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

       Am I accompanied by a PARENT or GUARDIAN?

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