dumb question
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Wed Jan 4 07:28:26 UTC 2012
On 01/04/2012 03:19 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
> To the list:
>
> I am dealing with a primary Fedora machine and a alternate WinXP under
> cygwin. Cygwin always screw up the permissions when I drag stuff over
> to it and then bring it back to the Fedora box. I've got scripts to
> handle making things right again.
>
> But I did have a question which I didn't find out from Googling (as I
> suspect I didn't know how to phrase it). On a Fedora/Linux box, do
> Makefile/makefile (s) have to be set to +x? Or can they be just
> "rw-r--r--"?
>
>
Makefile need not be executable....as they are just input to make....
egreshko at misty transcode-1.0.2]$ pwd
/home/egreshko/src/transcode-1.0.2
[egreshko at misty transcode-1.0.2]$ ll Makefile
-rw-rw-r-- 1 egreshko egreshko 25515 Nov 27 2005 Makefile
[egreshko at misty transcode-1.0.2]$ make | more
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/egreshko/src/transcode-1.0.2'
Making all in libtc
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/egreshko/src/transcode-1.0.2/libtc'
if /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..
-D_REENTRAN
T -Wall -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -g -O2
-MT tc_functions.lo -MD -MP -MF ".deps/tc_functions.Tpo" -c -o
tc_functions.lo tc_
functions.c; \
then mv -f ".deps/tc_functions.Tpo" ".deps/tc_functions.Plo"; else rm -f
".deps/tc
_functions.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
mkdir .libs
etc....
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