Re: make install: permission of lyx/xfonts

[Richard Geißler]

Angus Leeming wrote:

On Tuesday 04 February 2003 10:44 pm, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:

Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| Richard Geissler wrote:
| > During "make install" the directory lyx/xfonts will be created.
| > Depending on the umask value of the executing user (e.g. root),
| > permissions may be set to something different as they should be (755).
| > Therefore I would propose the following change:

Currently we create dirs the same way the rest of autoconf does it. If
we change one we should change all.

What is special with xfonts?

There is no difference to other directories created by make install. Due to difficulties with math symbols I tryed various font installations (ttf, pfb). When I executed "make install" the first time, I have set umask to 022 by hand, then I removed the xfonts directory and executed "make install" again withing a root shell where the umask was set to my default value of 077. The result was that the "wrong" permissions appeared only at the xfonts directory. If I remove all lyx-directories and execute "make install" than all created directories have wrong permissions.

I've just tried it and I conclude that all is as it should be:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 4 22:55 /usr/local/lyx/share/lyx-1.3.0pre3/xfonts

I suspect something's going wrong on Richard's side therefore.

Angus, what umask are you using? In my case, root uses umask 077 for security reason (as user root I prefer providing permissions rather than removing permissions). Then I get:
drwx------ 2 root root 368 Feb 5 10:04 xfonts

Richard