Re: Automake 1.4l released -- show of hands from cygwin/automake maintainers?

[Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> [This is for the cygwin mailing list]
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 08:28:05PM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> 
>>>>>>>"Charles" == Charles Wilson <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu> writes:
>>>>>>>
>>Charles> Nope.  It actually seems to be due to a change in automake.
>>Charles> Apparently, make distcheck did not previously 'chmod -R a-w'.
>>
>>I looked a bit but due to massive reorganization it is a pain to find
>>out when this went in.
>>
>>
>>We rely on `cp -p' in a few places, all in `dist'.  The problem is
>>most obvious in `distcheck' because it makes the tree read-only when
>>it is unpacked.  But suppose you use something like CVSREAD and check
>>out a tree.  Then a file like configure could very well be read-only,
>>leading to the same problem for a simple `dist'.
>>
>>I think we could add a check for whether "cp -p works in ." to
>>AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE and then use the result everywhere.  For this to work
>>we'd also need to add code to `missing' to handle this case, I think
>>(code I'm not entirely sure how to write -- ideally it would restore
>>the original file's permissions once it was done with the copy).
>>
>>I think our goal should be to support this feature everywhere.  But if
>>there aren't maintainers who need this in 1.5, I would prefer to file
>>a PR and leave it until a later release.  If you are such a
>>maintainer, please speak up.  Charles, are you?
>>
> 
> Can we get a show of hands for people who are actually trying to use
> automake as a *maintainer* under cygwin.
> 
> I suspect that this is not a big deal and that there is no reason to
> force automake people to waste time on Cygwin's irregularities for
> this release.


I believe that this problem is NOT a showstopper for either cygwin-1.3.3 
or automake-1.5.  However, it's good that you're doing the poll Chris, 
just to be sure.


> So, is anyone using automake in this capacity?  If you don't know what
> I'm talking about then you undoubtedly are not using automake as
> a maintainer.


For the record, I am not. (No need for everybody on the list to write 
"me neither" messages; let's keep this to only positive replies.  I 
replied to the thread mainly for my OTHER paragraph, not this one.)

--Chuck




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