From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu>
Cc: 3800@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#3800: [emacs-devel] emacs-23.0.96 make install misbehavior
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:50:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k52dn3al.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
> chmod -R a+r \
> /usr/local/share/emacs/23.0.96 \
> /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp \
> /usr/local/share/emacs/23.0.96/etc \
> /usr/local/share/emacs/23.0.96/lisp \
> /usr/local/share/info
>
> While it is appropriate to run chmod at installation time for a
> package's own files, it is HIGHLY INAPPROPRIATE to run chmod on
> directories and files belonging to other packages. The directories
>
> /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp
> /usr/local/share/info
>
> need to be removed from the install command chmod processing.
Fair enough. But the installation process needs to read the contents of
/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp and /usr/local/share/info in order to
function properly.
How about doing `u+r' instead of `a+r' for those directories?
next reply other threads:[~2009-07-12 18:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-12 18:50 Chong Yidong [this message]
2009-07-13 0:31 ` bug#3800: [emacs-devel] emacs-23.0.96 make install misbehavior Glenn Morris
2009-07-13 2:44 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-13 6:30 ` Glenn Morris
2009-07-13 6:44 ` Glenn Morris
2009-07-13 19:04 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2009-07-13 19:03 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
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2009-07-09 20:12 Nelson H. F. Beebe
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