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| From: | Alexandre Duret-Lutz |
| Subject: | Re: Automake 1.4l released |
| Date: | 14 Aug 2001 10:39:26 +0200 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 |
>>> "Charles" == Charles Wilson <address@hidden> writes: [...] Charles> Why is 'chmod -R a-w' used in the distdir: target? Is Charles> it just "that's the way it's always been done?" chmod -R a-w is done by the distcheck target (not distdir) to make sure a distribution can work even from a read-only filesystem (such as a CDROM). This test was not done in 1.4. -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz
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