Re: [Gnuplot-bugs] Makefile small bug

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

Gerhard Heinzel wrote:
> Here is a small bug in the Makefile:
> 
> When the directories /usr/local/libexec/gnuplot/4.0/ and 
> /usr/local/share/gnuplot/4.0/ do not exist, they and their parents 
> are created with the wrong permission ("700" with root as owner, 
> since I need to run "make install" as root).

Note that you didn't show any evidence that our Makefile has anything to
do with that, but only demonstrated the final effect.  And, if you look
at the actual Makefile generated by automake/autoconf, you'll find that
it doesn't contain such mode restriction, anywhere. I.e., whatever is
causing those modes to be set that way, it's not gnuplot's doing.

To venture a guess, you may have a umask of 077 set up for your root
account.  That'd be a pretty bad idea if you expect to be running
program installations from that account...