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RE: setup.exe MD5 snapshot from 0504 - executable files are installed as mode 666


You might try following the instruction on
http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html for building on cygwin
- the configure recipe there will build a non-cygwin linked setup.exe.

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pavel Tsekov [mailto:ptsekov@syntrex.com] 
> Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 7:49 PM
> To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
> Subject: setup.exe MD5 snapshot from 0504 - executable files 
> are installed as mode 666
> 
> 
> I've built the snapshot and tried to install less. Install 
> was fine but when I tried to execute less i got "Pemission denied".
> 
> $ ls -l /usr/bin/less.exe
> -rw-rw-rw-    1 paveltz  Nessuno     95744 Mar 21 06:06 
> /usr/bin/less.exe
> 
> So the file permissions aren't set right. Tried with several 
> other packages just to be sure and all of the executables 
> fail the same way.
> 
> I've noticed something interesting after I've built setup.exe 
> though. Since I'm building from withing cygwin environment it 
> seems like the configure decides that it needs to build 
> setup.exe which depends on the cygwin1.dll. So it seems this 
> influences on the file mode of the files created by 
> setup.exe! I've checked that the set_default_dacl () call is 
> still in the main() and in fact its there but has no effect 
> or is overridden by cygwin1.dll ;)
> 
> However I think that it would be usefull if the tar class has 
> methods to retrieve file permissions of the extracted files 
> so that the setup.exe could install the files with 
> approapriate permissions.
> 
> Just a heads up :)
> 
> 


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