Allegro game programming library

On 7/24/05, Peter Wang <tjaden@...> wrote:
> Here is a patch to install liballeg*.so and the alleg-*.so modules with
> the execute bit on.  Everyone else seems to do it that way, though I
> don't really know why.

I posed this question to the OpenSolaris community. I imagine the
answers would be roughly the same for BSD/Linux:
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=3D1353&tstart=3D0

In short, it's for historical reasons when linkers and other things
required the executable bit set...whether it's still for historical
reasons or not on BSD/Linux who can say? But everyone seems to ship
them that way as you noted.

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Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
binarycrusader@... - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/

On 2005-07-26, Shawn Walker <binarycrusader@...> wrote:
> On 7/24/05, Peter Wang <tjaden@...> wrote:
> > Here is a patch to install liballeg*.so and the alleg-*.so modules with
> > the execute bit on.  Everyone else seems to do it that way, though I
> > don't really know why.
> 
> I posed this question to the OpenSolaris community. I imagine the
> answers would be roughly the same for BSD/Linux:
> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=1353&tstart=0

Thanks.  Committed.

Peter