Debian Bug report logs - #140837
automake: configure has mode 755

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: mbp@samba.org (Martin Pool)

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: automake: configure has mode 755

Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 08:59:59 +1000 (EST)

Subject: automake: configure has mode 755
Package: automake
Version: 1:1.4-p4-1.1
Severity: normal

automake produces a configure file with mode 0775.  (At least, when
the user's umask is the default of 002.  Presumably it's modified
appropriately otherwise.)

This of course corresponds to the permission bits rwxrwxr-x.  This is
obviously completely inappropriate, as the code produced by automake
is something that should never been seen by human eyes.

To pick one examples:

  # The following way of writing the cache mishandles newlines in values,
{
  (set) 2>&1 |
    case `(ac_space='"'"' '"'"'; set | grep ac_space) 2>&1` in
    *ac_space=\ *)
      sed -n \
        "s/'"'"'/'"'"'\\\\'"'"''"'"'/g;
    	  s/^\\([_$ac_cr_alnum]*_cv_[_$ac_cr_alnum]*\\)=\\(.*\\)/\\1='"'"'\\2'"'"'/p"
      ;;
    *)
      sed -n \
        "s/^\\([_$ac_cr_alnum]*_cv_[_$ac_cr_alnum]*\\)=\\(.*\\)/\\1=\\2/p"
      ;;
    esac;
} >&5

Worse than Perl!

Please, spare users the pain of seeing this by making the output
default to mode 0111.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux toey 2.4.17 #32 Tue Feb 12 08:53:12 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages automake depends on:
ii  autoconf                      2.52-6     automatic configure script builder
ii  autotools-dev                 20020222.1 Update infrastructure for config.{

Message #10 received at 140837@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@lrde.epita.fr>

To: mbp@samba.org (Martin Pool)

Cc: 140837@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#140837: automake: configure has mode 755

Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 08:59:10 +0200

Funny :)  Next year, fill your joke against the right package...
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz

Message #15 received at 140837-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: mbp@samba.org (Martin Pool)

To: 140837-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: re: obfuscated output from automake/autoconf

Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 18:59:13 +1000 (EST)

"ha ha, only serious".

(The convolutions of automake/autoconf/libtool are pretty bad, but
they seem the best available solution for handling portability, or if
not the best then at least the standard.)

Regards,
-- 
Martin

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