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).