I just found this in a forgotten corner of my hard drive. The issue it was created to solve was that DLLs are installed without execute permission, when ntsec is on. I haven't tested this recently, because I decided some time ago that nontsec made my life a whole lot easier, but it did work when I wrote it.
Here it is, in case anyone wants it. --- /usr/autotool/devel/share/aclocal/libtool.m4.orig 2003-02-20 11:45:36.000000000 +0000 +++ /usr/autotool/devel/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 2003-02-20 11:50:52.000000000 +0000 @@ -1168,7 +1168,7 @@ dlpath=`$SHELL 2>&1 -c '\''. $dir/'\''\${base_file}'\''i;echo \$dlname'\''`~ dldir=$destdir/`dirname \$dlpath`~ test -d \$dldir || mkdir -p \$dldir~ - $install_prog $dir/$dlname \$dldir/$dlname' + `echo \$install_prog | sed -e '\'':a;s/\( -m [[0-7]]*\)6/\17/;s/\( -m [[0-7]]*\)4/\15/;ta'\''` $dir/$dlname \$dldir/$dlname' postuninstall_cmds='dldll=`$SHELL 2>&1 -c '\''. $file; echo \$dlname'\''`~ dlpath=$dir/\$dldll~ $rm \$dlpath' Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/