On 2020-04-18 19:11:14 -0400, Nick Bowler wrote:
> I guess the note about dist-hooks when packaging from a read-only srcdir
> was added because of my bug report[1].
>
> I have never noticed read-only _directories_ in the distdir before (I
> have assumed they are always created read-write so that
On 18/04/2020, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2020-04-18 15:04:08 -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
[...]
>> Also, not that I wrote any of this, but it seems to me that the
>> pervasive assumption is that the automake user in fact owns the file
>> trees in question. Thus rm -rf should work even if it's mode
On 2020-04-18 15:04:08 -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Vincent,
>
> So, if the subdirectories may not be writable, how can the rm in the
> first example work without changing the permissions first?
>
> [namely:]
> dist-hook:
> rm -rf `find $(distdir)/doc -type d -name
Hi Vincent,
So, if the subdirectories may not be writable, how can the rm in the
first example work without changing the permissions first?
[namely:]
dist-hook:
rm -rf `find $(distdir)/doc -type d -name .svn`
That example belongs to the preceding paragraph
doc/automake.texi contains:
@example
EXTRA_DIST = doc
dist-hook:
rm -rf `find $(distdir)/doc -type d -name .svn`
@end example
@c The caveats described here should be documented in 'disthook.sh'.
@noindent
Note that
