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From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu>
To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Cc: beebe@math.utah.edu
Subject: bug#3800: [emacs-devel] emacs-23.0.96 make install misbehavior
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 14:12:58 -0600 (MDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CMM.0.94.0.1247170378.beebe@psi.math.utah.edu> (raw)

I'm doing "make install" for several builds of emacs-23.0.96, and I
just noticed this output (with the GNU default of prefix=/usr/local):

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.

Their contents, and file permissions, are not the business of
emacs-x.y.z release installations.  A given site, including ours, may
have local reasons for nondefault permissions in those directories.

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             reply	other threads:[~2009-07-09 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <yq8wgo3kxu.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
2009-07-09 20:12 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe [this message]
2009-09-09  2:40   ` bug#3800: marked as done ([emacs-devel] emacs-23.0.96 make install misbehavior) Emacs bug Tracking System
2009-07-12 18:50 bug#3800: [emacs-devel] emacs-23.0.96 make install misbehavior Chong Yidong
2009-07-13  0:31 ` 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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