Re: lynx-dev Permissions of files installed by install-doc

[Frédéric L . W . Meunier]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote:
>
> > It seems that make install-help doesn't make the right
> > permissions.
> >
> > I'm installing on Linux but the sources are on a FAT32
> > partition (mounted with
> > defaults,gid=10,quiet,shortname=winnt,umask=002).
>
> Your process umask should be the rule - I haven't seen any discussion
> about the filesystem's umask before.
>
> > Do you really need to use tar ? I tested with;
> >
> > 1- The default tar I use, star 1.5a35:
>
> I suppose we could make a check for program $TAR, but tar is standard, and
> star is not.

Both seem to behave the same installing from an ext3 partition
with a fresh install, but all directories and files in lynx_doc
have fredlwm.fredlwm permissions. I installed as root.

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