Re: errors coming from building from scratch

2004-04-07 Thread Edward S. Peschko
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 03:57:59PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Hi Edward, > > >> Perhaps I'm missing something obvious but it seems to me that the real > >> question is why automake is installing things with the incorrect > >> permissions for you. Is there a reason you're not focused on thi

Re: errors coming from building from scratch

2004-04-07 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hi Edward, >> Perhaps I'm missing something obvious but it seems to me that the real >> question is why automake is installing things with the incorrect >> permissions for you. Is there a reason you're not focused on this issue? > Well, as a quick workaround I am focused on this issue (I instal

Re: errors coming from building from scratch

2004-04-07 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hello Edward, >>However, automake installs things with a default permission of 644, which doesn't >>work fine on other packages and leads to popups. This is strange. Larry wrote: > Perhaps I'm missing something obvious but it seems to me that the real > question is why automake is installing th

Re: errors coming from building from scratch

2004-04-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 6 21:25, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 6 12:08, Edward S. Peschko wrote: > > but's that's the issue - rxvt *does* do this correctly. As does strace. When you > > get a > > 'can't load X server' or other file error, it comes to the console not to a popup. > > There's an important diff

Re: errors coming from building from scratch

2004-04-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 6 14:56, Larry Hall wrote: > Perhaps I'm missing something obvious but it seems to me that the real > question is why automake is installing things with the incorrect > permissions for you. Is there a reason you're not focused on this issue? Yes, that's an interesting point, you're rais

Re: errors coming from building from scratch

2004-04-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 6 12:08, Edward S. Peschko wrote: > On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 08:54:02PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Apr 6 11:43, Edward S. Peschko wrote: > > > I don't see why cygwin could internalize this behavior and provide a consistant > > > way > > > of displaying linking errors via text ra

Re: errors coming from building from scratch

2004-04-06 Thread Edward S. Peschko
> Perhaps I'm missing something obvious but it seems to me that the real > question is why automake is installing things with the incorrect > permissions for you. Is there a reason you're not focused on this issue? Well, as a quick workaround I am focused on this issue (I install my own hacked

Re: errors coming from building from scratch

2004-04-06 Thread Edward S. Peschko
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 08:54:02PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 6 11:43, Edward S. Peschko wrote: > > I don't see why cygwin could internalize this behavior and provide a consistant way > > of displaying linking errors via text rather than annoying popups.. > > Since it has nothing to

Re: errors coming from building from scratch

2004-04-06 Thread Larry Hall
At 02:43 PM 4/6/2004, you wrote: >> >> What is the output of cygcheck /your/path/gcc.exe and what are the >> permissions of *all* the shared libraries gcc.exe depends on? > >That's the point.. when cygintl-2.dll is 644 (which is a dependency) or *any* of the >system directories (ADVAPI32.DLL, NTD

Re: errors coming from building from scratch

2004-04-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 6 11:43, Edward S. Peschko wrote: > I don't see why cygwin could internalize this behavior and provide a consistant way > of displaying linking errors via text rather than annoying popups.. Since it has nothing to do with Cygwin, perhaps? When an application is linked against a DLL, the l

errors coming from building from scratch

2004-04-06 Thread Edward S. Peschko
> > What is the output of cygcheck /your/path/gcc.exe and what are the > permissions of *all* the shared libraries gcc.exe depends on? That's the point.. when cygintl-2.dll is 644 (which is a dependency) or *any* of the system directories (ADVAPI32.DLL, NTDLL) etc. are 644, programs crash. If I