Re: bug in m4/mkdirp.m4

2005-10-17 Thread Eric Blake
> EB> 'chmod -x install-sh' is not portable. > > Thanks for the info. Do you actually know any system where this doesn't work? Any system with coreutils-5.91 installed, and a umask that restricts x bits differently than the current x bit setting of the file: $ touch file $ chmod o+x file $ (u

Re: bug in m4/mkdirp.m4

2005-10-17 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "EB" == Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: EB> 'chmod -x install-sh' is not portable. Thanks for the info. Do you actually know any system where this doesn't work? EB> It is much more portable to do 'chmod a-x install-sh'. Done. -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz Shared books are happy book

Re: bug in m4/mkdirp.m4

2005-10-05 Thread Eric Blake
Alexandre Duret-Lutz src.lip6.fr> writes: > 2005-10-03 Alexandre Duret-Lutz gnu.org> > > * tests/nobase.test: Exercise previous patch. > > +# Remove the 'x' bits just for fun. (Peter O'Gorman said: "If an > +# upstream source tarball does not use the autotools, it is sometimes > +# ea

Re: bug in m4/mkdirp.m4

2005-10-03 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "PO" == Peter O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PO> Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: PO> 2005-??-?? Peter O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PO> * lib/am/distdir.am: Remove $(SHELL) when calling install_sh PO> * m4/strip.m4: Ditto. PO> * m4/install-sh.m4: Add $(SHELL) to the definition of insta

Re: bug in m4/mkdirp.m4

2005-09-13 Thread Peter O'Gorman
Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: PO> 2005-??-?? Peter O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PO> * lib/am/distdir.am: Remove $(SHELL) when calling install_sh PO> * m4/strip.m4: Ditto. PO> * m4/install-sh.m4: Add $(SHELL) to the definition of install_sh Thanks for the patch. Can you explain how the x bit

Re: bug in m4/mkdirp.m4

2005-09-13 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "PO" == Peter O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PO> I guess I'll try this list, since mails and pings to bug-automake get no PO> response... PO> PO> install-sh, if it loses its execute bit causes install to fail.

Re: bug in m4/mkdirp.m4

2005-09-05 Thread Peter O'Gorman
Stepan Kasal wrote: Hello, On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 12:06:38AM +0900, Peter O'Gorman wrote: I guess I'll try this list, since mails and pings to bug-automake get no response... when Alexandre, the Automake maintainer, is

Re: bug in m4/mkdirp.m4

2005-09-05 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 12:06:38AM +0900, Peter O'Gorman wrote: > I guess I'll try this list, since mails and pings to bug-automake get no > response... > when Alexandre, the Automake maintainer, is active, he reads bo