From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: bug#3800: [emacs-devel] emacs-23.0.96 make install misbehavior Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 14:12:58 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: Reply-To: "Nelson H. F. 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Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (fencepost.gnu.org [140.186.70.10]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n69KDAuC006453 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 13:13:11 -0700 Original-Received: from mail.gnu.org ([199.232.76.166]:38518 helo=mx10.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1MOzzR-0004kF-TT for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:13:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MOzzP-0008TM-US for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:13:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.math.utah.edu ([155.101.98.135]:60954) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MOzzP-0008Se-JL for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:13:07 -0400 Original-Received: from psi.math.utah.edu (psi.math.utah.edu [155.101.96.19]) by mail.math.utah.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id n69KCw6k010203; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 14:12:59 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: from psi.math.utah.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by psi.math.utah.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n69KCwue015183; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 14:12:58 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: (from beebe@localhost) by psi.math.utah.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n69KCwpm015182; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 14:12:58 -0600 (MDT) X-US-Mail: "Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB, University of Utah, 155 S 1400 E RM 233, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA" X-Telephone: +1 801 581 5254 X-FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 4148 X-URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0 (mail.math.utah.edu [155.101.98.135]); Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:12:59 -0600 (MDT) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Resent-Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:37:34 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:29280 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:24753 Archived-At: 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - University of Utah FAX: +1 801 581 4148 - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB Internet e-mail: beebe@math.utah.edu - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe@acm.org beebe@computer.org - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------