Re: Setting permissions via PERM_RWX

[email protected] (brian d foy) Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:20:21 -0500
Newsgroups perl.makemaker
Message-ID <280820091620213243%[email protected]>
In article <[email protected]>, Dan
Horne <[email protected]> wrote:



> On another topic (but related to the same file), is there any way I  
> can prompt the person installing the distribution for the name of a  
> UNIX group which should have execute permissions on this file?

Makemaker has the prompt() function for this. Before you call
WriteMakefile, prompt the user for the name and do whatever processing
you need.