cl.exe compiles libraries with blank permissions

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

icc97 wrote:
> Further research shows that the issue is that the file is first created with
> additional windows permissions i.e. doing ls -lrt on the file gives:
> 
> ----------+ 1 myname            Domain Users  14436 Jul  8 13:00 mylib.lib
> 
> The '+' indicating additional permissions.
> 
> The file is then copied to a separate directory and the additional
> permissions are lost, so now doing an ls -lrt gives:
> ---------- 1 myname            Domain Users 14436 Jul  8 13:04 mylib.lib
> 
> The '+' is gone.  So does anyone know why the file permissions get removed
> when the file is copied?

I suspect you're using 'cp' which by default only respects POSIX
permissions.  Use the '--preserve=all' switch in this case.

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