On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Aaron Smith wrote:
I just downloaded and untar'd the latest ncurses tarball ( at
http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-5.7.tar.gz ) and noticed that
all the files are mode 444. Yes, it's very easy to work around....but I
am curious to know why it is packaged up like this. Is there a specific
reason the files are all read-only? Thanks for your help,
I recall noticing that I'd overlooked that part. It depends on which
script I used to make the tarfile.
Due to the long-names in the Ada95 directory, I make the ncurses tar-ball
on a different machine where I don't have the release-tarball script that
ensures the files are writable, but have my development script, which
doesn't modify permissions. (ncurses is the only one with long-names).