GNU bug report logs - #50818
28.0.50; .eln files need to be executable on Cygwin

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Message #8 received at 50818 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
Cc: 50818 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#50818: 28.0.50; .eln files need to be executable on Cygwin
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2021 19:04:20 +0300

> From: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> 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.

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