Re: local.mk and SUDO

[Martyn Jago <martyn.jago@btinternet.com>]

Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> writes:

> Martyn Jago writes:
>>>> diff --git a/lisp/org-mobile.el b/lisp/org-mobile.el
>>>> old mode 100644
>>>> new mode 100755

[...]

> Then you yourself must most likely have changed the mode of those files
> to "executable".  There is nothing in the build system that even
> attempts to change modes.

Hi Achim

Since the new makefile uses the `install' command as opposed to `cp' to
install files, the following is noted in man install:

,----[*Man install*]
| -m      Specify an alternate mode.  The default mode is set to rwxr-xr-x
|         (0755).  The specified mode may be either an octal or symbolic value;
|         see chmod(1) for a description of possible mode values.
`----

Since the mode of .el files on git is 0644, this causes git to flag the
files as modified (since I am running Org from the distribution
directory).

So the obvious answer is to not to use make install (as per the
documentation). This is a heads-up to me since I believed install did
more than simply moving .el and .elc files from A to B.

However this is new behavior and worth mentioning. 'make install' (no
sudo) used to silently `install' (or not as the case may be) and not
change modes as above. Personally I wouldn't call it a regression though
since make install is pointless IIUC in this situation.

Since I can no longer use `make up2' it seems that `make up1' is the
correct command for my situation. This works fine except that
org-version points to the wrong org-install:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
 Org-mode version 7.8.09
(release_7.8.09-441-g6732d6.dirty @
/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/org/org-install.el.gz) 
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

So for my case I've added the target upgrade to local.mk:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
upgrade: up1 autoloads
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

HTH

Best, Martyn


> Regards,
> Achim.