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[emacs-devel] emacs-23.0.96 make install misbehavior

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (Emacs bug Tracking System)
To: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe <at> math.utah.edu>
Subject: bug#3800 closed by Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> (Re: bug#3800:
 [emacs-devel] emacs-23.0.96 make install misbehavior)
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:40:07 +0000

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 3800-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#3800: [emacs-devel] emacs-23.0.96 make install misbehavior
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:34:37 -0400

I believe this is fixed now.

  * Makefile.in (install-arch-indep): Don't recursively change perms of
  site-lisp and infodir. There may be non-Emacs files in here, and the
  files supplied by Emacs are all handled explicitly already.  (Bug#3800)

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From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe <at> math.utah.edu>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Cc: beebe <at> math.utah.edu
Subject: [emacs-devel] emacs-23.0.96 make install misbehavior
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 14:12:58 -0600 (MDT)

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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