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Re: Automake 1.4l released
- To: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Subject: Re: Automake 1.4l released
- From: Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g at lrde dot epita dot fr>
- Date: 14 Aug 2001 10:39:26 +0200
- Cc: Tim Van Holder <tim dot van dot holder at pandora dot be>, automake at gnu dot org
- List-Id: Discussion list for automake <automake.gnu.org>
- Organization: LRDE/EPITA http://www.lrde.epita.fr/
- References: <CAEGKOHJKAAFPKOCLHDIGEJACGAA.tim.van.holder@pandora.be><3B782D8B.859A7D56@ece.gatech.edu>
>>> "Charles" == Charles Wilson <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu> writes:
[...]
Charles> Why is 'chmod -R a-w' used in the distdir: target? Is
Charles> it just "that's the way it's always been done?"
chmod -R a-w is done by the distcheck target (not distdir) to
make sure a distribution can work even from a read-only
filesystem (such as a CDROM). This test was not done in 1.4.
--
Alexandre Duret-Lutz