On 11/19/09 9:43 AM, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> 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.
Hi, Andrew.
To me it doesn't seem so obvious that libraries should use
BIN_PERMISSIONS. Why should a library be executable? I understand that
some platforms require libraries to be executable, but in a way, it's a
little strange. It's not like you can execute a library. I'm fine with
LIB_PERMISSIONS being different from BIN_PERMISSIONS. For an example of
what another project does, I looked at /share/mk/bsd.own.mk from the
OpenBSD build system:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/share/mk/
bsd.own.mk?rev=1.100&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
It uses the following default settings ('?=' is a BSD extension meaning
assign if not already defined):
BINMODE?= 555
NONBINMODE?= 444
LIBMODE?= ${NONBINMODE}
Lewis
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