[GRASS-dev] backporting help for SVN

[William Kyngesburye]

On Mar 28, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Glynn Clements wrote:

> One minor point:
>
> 	$(INSTALL) -m 755 grass-xterm-mac $(ETC)
>
> Makefiles shouldn't hard-code the permissions. The user should be able
> to override this by setting INSTALL. Typically. $(INSTALL) will use
> 755 while $(INSTALL_DATA) will use 644.
>
> --  
> Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>


Ah, I must have done that as a quick fix a while back (and it  
propogated to later changes) without reading the install docs  
completely (and missed that install defaults to 755).

I have that in my osx makefiles also...  on to cleanup...

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