Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:43:52 -0600

On Thursday 19 November 2009 08:12:45 Eric Norum wrote:
> All files in the<base>/ include directory on my OS X machine are mode
> 644, as they should be.

I think Jeff is really asking why they aren't installed 444, which is a good 
question which Janet can't explain either (lost in the mists of pre-history, 
or before CVS anyway).  It should be easy to change the install mode; there 
are three X_PERMISSIONS variables in configure/CONFIG_COMMON:

    BIN_PERMISSIONS = 555
    LIB_PERMISSIONS = 644
    INSTALL_PERMISSIONS = 644

Changing the 644 to 444 would then make the installed files read-only.  We 
don't know why there is a different LIB_PERMISSIONS setting since I would 
expect libraries to use the BIN_PERMISSIONS, but they don't.  Janet agrees we 
should fix this.

- Andrew
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System