On Mar 1, 2000, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Don't use `ln' (which was just a space optimization anyway)
A worthwhile optimization, IMO. There are some `find' hacks in the
`dist' rules to avoid modifying the permissions in the source tree,
but, unfortunately, they do not apply to the final `chmod -R a+w' at
the end of `dist' or `dist-all', nor to the beginning of `distcheck' or
`distdir'. We should probably replace:
-chmod -R a+w $(distdir) > /dev/null 2>&1; rm -rf $(distdir)
with:
-find $(distdir) -type d -exec chmod a+w {} \; ; rm -rf $(distdir)
And it would fix the whole problem without disabling the
optimization. Note that distcheck applies several other chmod to
distdir, but only after it is created from scratch, in a
hard-link-free way, by extracting the sources from the dist file.
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