DJGPP & destdir.test failure (Was: Re: on using `makeinfo --no-split' to solve filename conflicts)

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Richard" == Richard Dawe <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

 Richard> * destdir.test: This fails and I don't know why. I've
 Richard> looked at it for a while. I've attached a log file
 Richard> from the test run. Maybe you can see something I
 Richard> can't. Let me know if there's anything I can do, to
 Richard> help debug the destdir.test failure. I wonder if it
 Richard> fails on other platforms too.

It works fine here.  In this test we expect `make distcheck' to
fail because of the following commands.

[...]

dc_install_base=`CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.};" && cd destdir-1.0/_inst && pwd | 
sed -e 's,^[^:\\/]:[\\/],/,'` \

[...]

  && chmod -R a-w "$dc_install_base" \

[...]

c:/djgpp/bin/make.exe  install-data-hook
make.exe[3]: Entering directory 
`c:/develop/ports/gnu.dev/automake-1.7.2c/tests/testSubDir/destdir-1.0/_build'
cp 
c:/temp/am-dc-15416//develop/ports/gnu.dev/automake-1.7.2c/tests/testSubDir/destdir-1.0/_inst/share/foo
 
/develop/ports/gnu.dev/automake-1.7.2c/tests/testSubDir/destdir-1.0/_inst/share/bar

This `cp' copies a file to a read-only directory.  That isn't
expected to work.  Apparently it does on DJGPP, as make continues.

Is there anything peculiar with read-only directories, or
copying rights in DJGPP?
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz