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RE: setup.exe MD5 snapshot from 0504 - executable files are installed as mode 666
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Pavel Tsekov" <ptsekov at syntrex dot com>,<cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 19:50:59 +1000
- Subject: 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 :)
>
>