Hi Jeff,
On Sat, 9 Jan 2021, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I'm auditing $prefix for ownership and permissions. I noticed *.la > files are executable: > > $ ls -Al /usr/local/lib/libgettextlib.la > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1078 Jan 8 15:58 /usr/local/lib/libgettextlib.la [snip] > Are the *.la files supposed to be executable? Since libtool sources the .la files, they do not need to be executable. You will see a mix of executable and non-executable in various distos. My packaging scripts do a chmod 644 on them. > Jeff > -- Tim Rice Multitalents t...@multitalents.net
