RE: Calling all sed wizards! Need a little help with possible fix: Subtle permissions bug in interaction between Makefiles & libtool (Cygwin-specific)

["Harig, Mark A." <maharig at idirect dot net>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Max Bowsher [mailto:maxb@ukf.net]
> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 5:22 PM
> To: Max Bowsher; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Calling all sed wizards! Need a little help with 
> possible fix:
> Subtle permissions bug in interaction between Makefiles & libtool
> (Cygwin-specific)
> 
> 
> Max Bowsher wrote:
> > I've located an awkward bug in the interaction between common-sense
> > Makefile rules and Cygwin libtool.
> >
> > The package I was building at the time was libiconv, but 
> the issue is
> > common to any autoconf-libtool build system.
> >
> > The libiconv.la file is installed as data (i.e. 644) - which is
> > correct. However the Cygwin specific postinstall_cmds in libtool use
> > the same install command to install the DLL. This results in the DLL
> > being installed without execute permission (on ntsec systems), and
> > causes "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000022)."
> > errors from dependent exes.
> >

Is there a reason not to create a patch that would fix the
problem in the source of the postinstall_cmds?

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