File permissions in GCC-3.3.3 second prerelease

[John Marshall <johnm at opera dot no>]

Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> The second prerelease of GCC-3.3.3 tarballs are available at
>    ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/prerelease-3.3.3-20040210/

Here is something (fairly trivial) that I've been meaning to report
for several releases now.  There are a few files in the archive with
inconsistent permissions:

$ tar tvfj gcc-3.3.3-20040210.tar.bz2|awk '{print $1}'|sort|uniq -c|sort -rn
  15842 -rw-r--r--
    457 drwxrwxrwx
     81 -rwxr-xr-x
      7 -rwxr-xr--

The first three categories are what you would expect, but the final
seven files are unusual: other users can't execute them.  This causes
build failures if you have pristine world-readable source owned by one
ordinary user and build from it as another ordinary user.  Admittedly
this is a unusual thing to do :-), but some of my autobuilders are
arranged like this.

The seven files in question are

	-rwxr-xr--  gcc/config.guess
	-rwxr-xr--  gcc/configure
	-rwxr-xr--  gcc/fixproto
	-rwxr-xr--  gcc/move-if-change
	-rwxr-xr--  gcc/scan-types.sh
	-rwxr-xr--  gcc/sort-protos
	-rwxr-xr--  gcc/config/m88k/m88k-move.sh

I had an idea that a well-timed umask in the gcc_release script might
be relevant here, but perhaps just chmodding these few files,v on the
CVS server would be sufficient.

    John  "not a CVS expert"