>>> "mcmahill" == mcmahill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
mcmahill> I have a shell script which I want to run as part of mcmahill> a testsuite. However when I do a 'make distcheck' mcmahill> this script [...] ends up with execute permissions mcmahill> turned off. How does this happen? Automake uses many shell scripts in its test suite. They are all executable and they don't lose their permission bits during distcheck (AFAIK). Automake doesn't use `chmod +x' nor `$(SHELL)'. Anyway these would be just workarounds, the real problem is why your script lose its executable bit, not how to set it back. -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz
