Re: Are *.la files supposed to be executable?

Tim Rice <[email protected]> Sat, 9 Jan 2021 17:04:45 -0800 (PST)

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.libtool.general
Message-ID	<alpine.UW2.2.11.2101091656330.24012@server01.int.multitalents.net>

Hi Jeff,

On Sat, 9 Jan 2021, Jeffrey Walton wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I'm auditing $prefix for ownership and permissions. I noticed *.la
> files are executable:
> 
> $ ls -Al /usr/local/lib/libgettextlib.la
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1078 Jan  8 15:58 /usr/local/lib/libgettextlib.la
[snip]
> Are the *.la files supposed to be executable?

Since libtool sources the .la files, they do not need to be executable.
You will see a mix of executable and non-executable in various distos.
My packaging scripts do a chmod 644 on them.

> Jeff
> 

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