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- From: carlton@husc11.harvard.edu (david carlton)
- Subject: Re: INSTALL mode
- Message-ID: <01GQRU5FJVNK8WZIJN@HUSC3.HARVARD.EDU>
- Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
- Organization: Citizens for Boysenberry Jam
- References: <199211042120.AA01473@claude.cs.umb.edu>
- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 05:20:07 GMT
- Approved: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu
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- In article <199211042120.AA01473@claude.cs.umb.edu>, karl@claude.cs.umb.edu (Karl Berry) writes:
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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.
-
- 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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