Re: AC_CONFIG_FILES and chmod

[William Pursell]

Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
> On configure.ac, if you need to set the executable flag of a file
> generated by configure, you can do like this (as reported in the manual):
> 
> AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile src/Makefile man/Makefile X/Imakefile])
> AC_CONFIG_FILES([autoconf], [chmod +x autoconf])
> 
> Now, since I have many generated files to set as executable, is there a
> quicker way than to have an AC_CONFIG_FILES([...], [chmod +x ...])
> instruction for each file?

You can do:

m4_esyscmd([for f in foo bar;
        do echo "AC_CONFIG_FILES([$f],[chmod +x $f])"; done])

Eric, is that safe?


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William Pursell