Re: Making files executable

Alberto Simões <[email protected]> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:42:55 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.module-build
Organization	Departamento de Informática - Universi dade do Minho
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hellow

On 16/02/2010 20:19, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>> It is a binary that is shipped in the distribution (yes, I know about
>> portability. not relevant atm), that is marked as executable. In a
>> MyBuild.pm process_*_files function I copy these files to the
>> blib/scripts folder.
> 
> Binaries go into blib/bin.  It shouldn't cause your problem putting a
> binary into script, but it might cause subtle problems down the road.

OK, then need to check why scripts is being created instead of bin.

>> With build install these files get installed in the correct place...
>>
>> ...but they lose the execution bit.
> 
> Are you using copy_if_modified?  It should preserve the executable bit. 
> Is the bit being lost when its copied to blib/scripts or when its
> installed?

Was using copy from file::copy.

chmod would be an option, but I do not like the idea :)

Thanks
Alberto
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Alberto SimÃµes