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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
Cc: 50818@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50818: 28.0.50; .eln files need to be executable on Cygwin
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2021 19:04:20 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a6jznx17.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7330c585-dffd-77e8-8d41-0ba1c7cbcfa6@cornell.edu> (message from Ken Brown on Sun, 26 Sep 2021 11:03:53 -0400)

> From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
> Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2021 11:03:53 -0400
> 
> An installed emacs built with native compilation won't start on Cygwin because 
> the executable permissions have been removed from the .eln files.  This is done 
> in the install-eln target of the top-level Makefile.in, which installs the .eln 
> files with 644 permissions even though they were created with executable 
> permissions.

Is what we do different from any other package the installs DLLs?

> Would it hurt anything on other platforms if the .eln files were installed with 
> 755 permissions?  If so, I can submit a patch that does this just on Cygwin.

Please define a new INSTALL_ELN macro for that purpose.

Thanks.





  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-26 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-26 15:03 bug#50818: 28.0.50; .eln files need to be executable on Cygwin Ken Brown
2021-09-26 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-09-26 16:57   ` Ken Brown
2021-09-27 18:52     ` Ken Brown
2021-09-27 19:12       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-27 19:26         ` Ken Brown

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