Hi, On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 18:27:49 +0100, Eric Sunshine wrote: > Jan Kratochvil wrote: ... > > As the possible 'keep executable' feature would be dependent upon by the > > package there is no way to make it optional according to the host platform. > > What I meant was that if 'ls -ld' behaves "correctly" on the platform on > which the configure script is running (the configure script can make > this determination), then is would be okay to enable code in the > configure script which relies upon ls's behavior.
If 'configure' detects 'ls' behaves "incorrectly" it has no chance how to detect which files should be config.status-ed with 'chmod +x' executability. It may just 'chmod +x' them all in such case otherwise the build may fail. Build may depend on the executability of config.status-ed build scripts. If 'chmod +x' of all config.status-ed files is acceptable fallback I am going to supply 'ls'-checking 'executability' patch. Regards, Lace
