[ft-devel] Re: executable bits in savannah repo

[David Somers]

On Saturday 05 March 2005 11:15, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> This is correct: CVS itself doesn't have the possibility to store
> permission bits -- if you get right permissions it is just because the
> underlying operating system supports it.  While importing the freetype
> archives, the savannah maintainers didn't take care of that (for
> whatever reason).  And no, it won't be changed (I've already
> asked :-).

Ah. I normally use cvsnt, which _does_ preserve the executable bits ;-)

> The solution is to add a script `autogen.sh' which starts the
> bootstrapping process by calling autoconf and friends, and which fixes
> the necessary file permissions.  I've done this right now.  As a
> consequence, I've also removed all scripts related to UNIXish
> configuration.
>
> Please test.

I just did a clean checkout from savannah and tested... all works as expected.

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