Make question/request.

Make question/request.

[Jason Price]

I'm putting zsh-3.1.6 on a bunch of machines.  I've noticed a couple of
things about the make install of it that might be useful to change.

First is to manually override the umask for directories, the same way you
do for files.  files, despite a umask of 0077, come out 644.  But new
directories come out 700.  

Second is to manually set the mode of:

$BINDIR/share/zsh/functions/compinit

to 755, so that errors won't happen after people run compinstall.  

Of course, my understanding of such things might be flawed, but that's what 
I've had to do to get it working.

Jason

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Faith is a matter of answers.            jprice@gatech.edu
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"Yes, Lord."

Re: Make question/request.

[Peter Stephenson]

Jason Price wrote:
> I'm putting zsh-3.1.6 on a bunch of machines.  I've noticed a couple of
> things about the make install of it that might be useful to change.
> 
> First is to manually override the umask for directories, the same way you
> do for files.  files, despite a umask of 0077, come out 644.  But new
> directories come out 700.  

Putting this in mkinstalldirs should be the right thing to do, since all
installed directories are supposed to be world readable (and if they
weren't, that would need special handling anyway).

> Second is to manually set the mode of:
> 
> $BINDIR/share/zsh/functions/compinit
> 
> to 755, so that errors won't happen after people run compinstall.  
> 
> Of course, my understanding of such things might be flawed, but that's what 
> I've had to do to get it working.

compinit is a function, it should be readable but not executable; executing
it as a command won't work.  If properly installed, the directory should be
in $fpath, and if not, compinstall should put it there; it should also make
compinit autoloaded.  What is actually going wrong?

P.S. please cc me with any replies as I'm not on the list :-).  More
seriously, the incoming mail here is screwed up, so mail to pws@ifh.de
might get answered more quickly (i.e. at all).

--- mkinstalldirs~	Wed Mar 25 00:08:40 1998
+++ mkinstalldirs	Mon Aug 30 17:05:29 1999
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
      if test ! -d "$pathcomp"; then
         echo "mkdir $pathcomp" 1>&2
         mkdir "$pathcomp" || errstatus=$?
+        chmod 0755 "$pathcomp"
      fi
 
      pathcomp="$pathcomp/"

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