Re: M4 1.4.9b testsuite failure

[Eric Blake]

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According to Andreas Schwab on 5/30/2007 8:50 AM:
> 
> There are many more bogus permissions in the package.  In fact, almost
> all files have bogus permissions.

Indeed, looking at the tarball, there are a number of files with execute
permissions that do not need them, and a number of files with execute
permissions for user but not group.  I've traced my problem in this
instance to the fact that I used Windows file restore mechanisms a couple
months ago (which are notoriously lousy at executable bits) to transfer
files to a new hard drive; fortunately Cygwin does a better job at
maintaining sane file permissions if they are sane to begin with.  I'll
clean up the mess, and make sure the 1.4.10 tarball is a lot nicer
(everything 644 or 755).  Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
However, I take some comfort that having a file marked executable when it
does not need to be is more of a cosmetic issue than a functional one; and
that the only show-stopper was having test-closein.sh not executable.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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