You might try following the instruction on http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html for building on cygwin - the configure recipe there will build a non-cygwin linked setup.exe.
Rob > -----Original Message----- > From: Pavel Tsekov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 7:49 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: setup.exe MD5 snapshot from 0504 - executable files > are installed as mode 666 > > > I've built the snapshot and tried to install less. Install > was fine but when I tried to execute less i got "Pemission denied". > > $ ls -l /usr/bin/less.exe > -rw-rw-rw- 1 paveltz Nessuno 95744 Mar 21 06:06 > /usr/bin/less.exe > > So the file permissions aren't set right. Tried with several > other packages just to be sure and all of the executables > fail the same way. > > I've noticed something interesting after I've built setup.exe > though. Since I'm building from withing cygwin environment it > seems like the configure decides that it needs to build > setup.exe which depends on the cygwin1.dll. So it seems this > influences on the file mode of the files created by > setup.exe! I've checked that the set_default_dacl () call is > still in the main() and in fact its there but has no effect > or is overridden by cygwin1.dll ;) > > However I think that it would be usefull if the tar class has > methods to retrieve file permissions of the extracted files > so that the setup.exe could install the files with > approapriate permissions. > > Just a heads up :) > >
