[R] Re: R 1.7.1 is released

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Dan E. Kelley wrote:

> Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
> 
> >I've rolled up R-1.7.1.tgz a short while ago. 
> >  
> >
> Thanks, Peter.  This is terrific!  I find that this R installation is 
> only accessible to the root.  In case it helps other folks, I've 
> attached a patch on the file
>     src/library/Makefile.in
> that solves the problem for me.

I think this is already covered by the advice in R-admin.texi:

If you want the build to be usable by a group of
users, set @code{umask} before unpacking so that the files will be
readable by the target group (e.g., @code{umask 022} to be usable by all
users).

To ensure that the installed tree is usable by the right group of users,
set @code{umask} appropriately (perhaps to @samp{022}) before unpacking
the sources and throughout the build process.

Did you do that?

> 
> NOTE: I am not too sure I've done the patch right, in terms of 
> filenames.  (I'm not familiar enough with diff and patch to do this sort 
> of thing reliably!)  So, in words, the change is simple: find the "@cp 
> -r" command of the "install:" target in src/library/Makefie.in and 
> change it to "@cp -pr" so that the permissions are retained.  At least 
> on my (linux/redhat9) box, this should work OK.
> 
> Dan.
> 
> 

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