Re: "Couldn't find obvious defaults"?

Adrian.Aichner(a)t-online.de (Adrian Aichner) writes: Thanks, this helped me find out the cause -- for some weird reason KDE 2.1 seem to set umask to 077 (failsafe X logins are 022), so when I install xemacs, /usr/local/lib/xemacs-21.2-b46 will be unreadable for everyone else. Sigh. Attached patch makes sure we run "umask 022" for all directories (earlier it was only done for some directories). Index: Makefile.in.in =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/CVSroot/XEmacs/xemacs/Attic/Makefile.in.in,v retrieving revision 1.1.2.28 diff -u -r1.1.2.28 Makefile.in.in --- Makefile.in.in 2001/02/06 13:34:57 1.1.2.28 +++ Makefile.in.in 2001/03/25 12:01:10 ＠＠ -439,7 +439,7 ＠＠ # endif /* CYGWIN */ #endif /* WIN32_NATIVE */ if test "${prefix}" != "${exec_prefix}"; then \ - $(MAKEPATH) ${exec_prefix}/lib/${instvardir}; \ + umask 022 && $(MAKEPATH) ${exec_prefix}/lib/${instvardir}; \ for dir in \ lib/${inststaticdir} \ lib/${instvardir}/etc \ ＠＠ -461,7 +461,7 ＠＠ done -set ${COPYDESTS} ; \ for dir in ${COPYDESTS} ; do \ - if test ! -d $${dir} ; then mkdir $${dir} ; fi ; \ + if test ! -d $${dir} ; then umask 022 && mkdir $${dir} ; fi ; \ done ; \ for dir in ${COPYDIR} ; do \ dest=$$1 ; shift ; \ ＠＠ -506,8 +506,8 ＠＠ ## (e.g. /usr/local/lib/${PROGNAME}-20.5/sparc-sun-solaris2.6), we use ## make-path instead of mkdir. Not all mkdirs have the `-p' flag. mkdir: FRC.mkdir - ${MAKEPATH} ${COPYDESTS} ${docdir} ${infodir} ${archlibdir} \ - ${mandir} ${bindir} ${datadir} ${libdir} ${pkgdir} \ + umask 022 && ${MAKEPATH} ${COPYDESTS} ${docdir} ${infodir} \ + ${archlibdir} ${mandir} ${bindir} ${datadir} ${libdir} ${pkgdir} \ ${sitelispdir} ${moduledir} ${sitemoduledir} ## Delete all the installed files that the `install' target would