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Re: Running ranlib after installation - okay or not?


On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
>| We currently perform the following sequence of commands as part of the
>| installation (-m 444 being the default on current FreeBSD systems).
> I can not see where freebsd could be getting a -m 444 from. The libraries
> are always installed with INSTALL_DATA and gcc's aclocal.m4 always sets that
> to INSTALL_DATA='${INSTALL} -m 644' if it is otherwise unset.
> 
> Do have an INSTALL_DATA var set in your environment?

The FreeBSD ports system (/usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk) indeed sets

  INSTALL_DATA= \
        ${INSTALL} ${COPY} ${_SHROWNGRP} -m ${SHAREMODE}

and SHAREMODE is set to 444 (in /usr/share/mk/bsd.own.mk).

Which does make sense, in general, but breaks ranlib without your fix.

Gerald


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