Re: problems with "make install" directory permissions
Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
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On 7/27/20 2:24 PM, Karl Berry wrote: > https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-bison/2020-07/msg00042.html > > I can understand increasing permissions to allow +rx on installation > directories, but why force 755, thus disallowing group writability? > I've never understood this forcing of 755. I expect it was by analogy with regular files, where are already forced to use the equivalent of umask 22 when being installed. This could have been a decision I made years ago when modifying GNU 'install' - I've forgotten the details. (No doubt it was a good decision at the time. :-)