Package: automake
Version: 1.9.6
Severity: wishlist
As I report in #444990, dmake is currently FTBFS because it contains
some tests which are not marked executable. These tests are simply
contained in the package, in files which end up extracted with mode
664 (or 644, depending on umask).
It would be nice if the automake-generated Makefile[.in] automatically
did chmod +x on files mentioned in TESTS. It should do this by
default but have a way to override it (since it might not be
appropriate for some packages).
I looked at dmake's tests/Makefile.in and it says this:
check-TESTS: $(TESTS)
@failed=0; all=0; xfail=0; xpass=0; skip=0; \
srcdir=$(srcdir); export srcdir; \
list='$(TESTS)'; \
if test -n "$$list"; then \
for tst in $$list; do \
if test -f ./$$tst; then dir=./; \
elif test -f $$tst; then dir=; \
else dir="$(srcdir)/"; fi; \
--->
if $(TESTS_ENVIRONMENT) $${dir}$$tst; then \
all=`expr $$all + 1`; \
The arrow shows where I think something like
chmod +x $$tst; \
could be added. I'm not an automake expert so I don't know, I'm
afraid, how to organise making this behaviour optional, and other
questions such as where in automake the change should be made, and
whether chmod should read $(CHMOD).
Ian.
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