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Re: Are *.la files supposed to be executable?
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Tim Rice |
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Re: Are *.la files supposed to be executable? |
Date: |
Sat, 9 Jan 2021 17:04:45 -0800 (PST) |
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Alpine 2.11 (UW2 23 2013-08-11) |
Hi Jeff,
On Sat, 9 Jan 2021, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm auditing $prefix for ownership and permissions. I noticed *.la
> files are executable:
>
> $ ls -Al /usr/local/lib/libgettextlib.la
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1078 Jan 8 15:58 /usr/local/lib/libgettextlib.la
[snip]
> Are the *.la files supposed to be executable?
Since libtool sources the .la files, they do not need to be executable.
You will see a mix of executable and non-executable in various distos.
My packaging scripts do a chmod 644 on them.
> Jeff
>
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