On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
* Peter Breitenlohner wrote on Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 10:59:03AM CEST:
Incidentally, that kind of "dancing around" is in no way unique to libtool.
Care to elaborate? Which other packages do this?
I just checked that both emacs-21.4 and xemacs-21.4.17 do something like
(cd ${src} && tar cf -) | (cd ${dst} && umask 022 & tar xf -)
which preserves the timestamps and unfortunately ownership as well. If I
remember correctly there are a few other packages doing either the same
thing or "cp -p" (or similar).
With GNU tar one could of course use either
tar cf - --owner=0 --group=0
or
tar xf --no-same-owner
but that will fail for other tar implementations.
At the moment, I use a shell script (bash) which does something like this:
....
make install-strip || exit
[ `id -u` == 0 ] && chown -R root: $prefix/share/$pkg
Why not
chown -R `id -u`:`id -g` $prefix/share/$pkg
here, unconditionally? ......
Well, I either install as me (owning everything to be installed) or as root;
thus the simple procedure above is good enough for me. Moreover whenever I
create files as non-root, these files are owned automatically by me (at
least on our linux systems).
....... Are there systems where chown does not
understand the uid:gid syntax?
Certainly no posix compliant ones, but then if there were no others much of
Autoconf&Co would be superfluous.
regards Peter
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