Permissions problem and cygcheck problem

[Eric Lilja]

Hello, I have cygwin installed on a brand new computer running Vista 
Ultimate 64-bit. One of the many things I use cygwin for is to compile a 
native Windows version of emacs (the trunk). I build it using two 
scripts: One that checks out and runs the configure script and the other 
one builds and installs it. I've been using these two scripts for some 
time now.
However, I encountered some problems running them on this machine:
First problem: The build/install-script copies a third party C#-mode to 
the site-lisp directory of emacs and byte-compiles it. I noticed that 
the byte compilation didn't work because emacs got a permission denied 
error on the .el-file, so I had to chmod 755 it before byte-compiling it.
Second problem: My script also copies a .dll-file to the emacs bin 
directory (an xpm-dll) that is used to get more nicer looking toolbars, 
but when I ran emacs I still got the default, really ugly toolbars. This 
again was due to a permission problem, I had to chmod 755 the xpm-dll to 
make emacs be able to use it. Here's an ls -l dump from my emacs bin 
directory:
$ ls -l
total 48M
----------+ 1 hivemind None   35K Sep 18 10:24 COPYING
----------+ 1 hivemind None  389K Sep 18 10:24 addpm.exe
----------+ 1 hivemind None  393K Sep 18 10:24 cmdproxy.exe
----------+ 1 hivemind None  628K Sep 18 10:23 ctags.exe
----------+ 1 hivemind None  382K Sep 18 10:24 ddeclient.exe
----------+ 1 hivemind None   25K Sep 18 10:23 digest-doc.exe
----------+ 1 hivemind None  512K Sep 18 10:23 ebrowse.exe
----------+ 1 hivemind None   42M Sep 18 10:23 emacs.exe
----------+ 1 hivemind None  801K Sep 18 10:23 emacsclient.exe
----------+ 1 hivemind None  853K Sep 18 10:23 emacsclientw.exe
----------+ 1 hivemind None  627K Sep 18 10:23 etags.exe
----------+ 1 hivemind None   38K Sep 18 10:23 hexl.exe
----------+ 1 hivemind None 1018K Sep 18 10:23 movemail.exe
----------+ 1 hivemind None  437K Sep 18 10:24 runemacs.exe
----------+ 1 hivemind None   39K Sep 18 10:23 sorted-doc.exe
-rwxr-xr-x  1 hivemind None   51K Sep 18 10:24 xpm4.dll*

As you can see, only xpm4.dll has any permissons set and that's only 
because my build script does it automatically. I didn't have to do this 
when running under Windows XP.

What's the cause and solution of these problems? When preparing this 
question, I tried to perform a cygcheck -svr > cygcheck.out but I had to 
kill it because it wouldn't stop (some problem with reading the 
registry, I think). And by kill I mean closing the shell completely, 
kill -9 pidofcygcheck returned a resource temporarily unavailable error. 
I'm attaching a snipped version of it. I see now in the cygcheck.out 
file this: "Running under WOW64 on AMD64", but this is an Intel computer 
(as one can see a bit further down).

Thanks for any help. I will be at work for the next few hours, but I 
will monitor this list from work and perform any additional tests when I 
get back home, if someone asks me to.

- Eric
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