[bug#67868] intentionally unreadable dirs make distcheck fail

2023-12-23 Thread Karl Berry
I guess no one saw anything obviously wrong with my distcheck permission fixes (or no one read my screed, for which I wouldn't blame anyone :), so closing. I still have no clue as to why it started failing "all of a sudden", but I guess it doesn't really matter. -k

[bug#67868] intentionally unreadable dirs make distcheck fail

2023-12-17 Thread Karl Berry
(Sorry, long message.) As of a few days ago, in a normal working directory, running make distcheck twice immediately fails the second time (for me): if test -d "automake-1.16i"; then find "automake-1.16i" -type d ! -perm -200 -exec chmod u+w {} ';' && rm -rf "automake-1.16i" || { sleep 5 && rm