On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 06:43:14PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 06:25:24PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > > > > And now that I look on *MY* system, NONE of the scripts in > > /usr/local/share/xastir/scripts have the execute permission set. > > Did our install process *ever* set execute permission on these scripts > > before? > > I can't think of anything that has changed recently to undo that. > > Yes, I can. > > Back in February I was forced to change scripts/Makefile.am because new > versions of Automake refuse to accept certain combinations of instructions > like "pkglib_SCRIPTS" which once sent our scripts to /usr/local/lib/xastir -- > It was always the case that only certain prefixes were intended to be used > with _SCRIPTS, but older versions of automake let it slide quietly when they > were misused. These days "pkglib" is an illegal use for the _SCRIPTS primary, > and current versions of automake refuse to proceed. > > This had to be changed just to get it to work, but with the side effect that > the scripts are now being installed as data instead of as scripts... i.e. > they're not executable on install. > > This will obviously need to be fixed. It may take some time to figure out > the correct Automake invocation to get it right. It might require yet another > relocation of the scripts. Grumble. > > For now, just do a chmod u+x on the files in /usr/local/share/xastir/scripts.
I've hacked the build system so scripts are once again installed as executables, without moving the install directory again. A cvs update followed by a new bootstrap, configure, and install will make it right. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m] _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
