Umask issue with installing directories?

[Wheeler, Kyle Bruce]

Hello,

I've been having an annoying issue that looks a bit like a umask issue. When I 
do `sudo make install` on a project that installs a directory of things,the 
files get installed with reasonable permissions (644), but the directories 
(e.g. /usr/local/include/<projectname> that get installed get a permission mask 
of 700---which is entirely useless.

Now, obviously, part of this is that the files get installed with `install` and 
a permission mode is specified, whereas directories are created with `mkdir` 
and a permission mode is (for some reason) NOT specified. Thus it's defined by 
the current umask (which, for me, is 0077).

Is this my fault for having too restrictive a umask, or is this autotools fault 
for making invalid assumptions about my umask? Is there a way around this?

I'm using automake 1.11.1 and autoconf 2.65 on MacOS 10.6.3, if that makes a 
difference.
-- 
Kyle Wheeler, PhD
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