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Re: ensure that generated files are read-only


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: ensure that generated files are read-only
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 22:11:14 -0700
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Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> alloca.h: alloca_.h
>       rm -f address@hidden $@
>       cp $(srcdir)/alloca_.h address@hidden
>       chmod a-x address@hidden
>       mv address@hidden $@

One other thing -- how about if we just remove the 'chmod' entirely?
If the source is readonly, that'd make the destination readonly.
Plus it wouldn't bother people who prefer to have read-write files,
and it'd save a command and a line of 'make' output.

An even shorter possibility would be:

alloca.h: alloca_.h
        cp -f $(srcdir)/alloca_.h address@hidden
        mv -f address@hidden $@

This relies on 'cp -f' and 'mv -f', but that's universal nowadays, no?
(If not, we could autoconfize it.)




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