autotool question: script permissions

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 10:28, Till Straumann wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 19:50, Till Straumann wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hi.
> >>
> >>I notice that the 'install-if-change' script (in tools/build)
> >>which is generated during the build process gets installed without
> >>the execution permission bits set. (644 instead of 755)
> >>  - what needs to be changed to correct that?
> >>    
> >>
> >... still investigating ...
> >
> >Till, could you please perform this test with the tarball below:

> 
> I 'string'ed the problematic version and found
> 
> @(#) OpenAFS stable 1.0.4 built  2001-05-23
> 
> (we use AFS a lot here) - apparently 'install' distributed with OpenAFS 
> 1.0.4
> is to blame - it got picked up from '/usr/local/bin'.

OK, this matches with what Alexandre Duret-Lutz (One of the automake
maintainers) had suspected (a broken install)
cf. http://sources.redhat.com/ml/automake/2003-07/msg00041.html

> Sorry for the hassle - was just not easy to track down.
:( 

Ralf