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#50818
28.0.50; .eln files need to be executable on Cygwin
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Reported by: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2021 15:10:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 28.0.50
Done: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
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An installed emacs built with native compilation won't start on Cygwin because
the executable permissions have been removed from the .eln files. This is done
in the install-eln target of the top-level Makefile.in, which installs the .eln
files with 644 permissions even though they were created with executable
permissions.
The failure is in Cygwin's dlopen, which calls the windows function
GetModuleHandleExW.
Would it hurt anything on other platforms if the .eln files were installed with
755 permissions? If so, I can submit a patch that does this just on Cygwin.
Ken
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Message #8 received at 50818 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> From: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
> Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2021 11:03:53 -0400
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> An installed emacs built with native compilation won't start on Cygwin because
> the executable permissions have been removed from the .eln files. This is done
> in the install-eln target of the top-level Makefile.in, which installs the .eln
> files with 644 permissions even though they were created with executable
> permissions.
Is what we do different from any other package the installs DLLs?
> Would it hurt anything on other platforms if the .eln files were installed with
> 755 permissions? If so, I can submit a patch that does this just on Cygwin.
Please define a new INSTALL_ELN macro for that purpose.
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Message #11 received at 50818 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
On 9/26/2021 12:04 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
>> Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2021 11:03:53 -0400
>>
>> An installed emacs built with native compilation won't start on Cygwin because
>> the executable permissions have been removed from the .eln files. This is done
>> in the install-eln target of the top-level Makefile.in, which installs the .eln
>> files with 644 permissions even though they were created with executable
>> permissions.
>
> Is what we do different from any other package the installs DLLs?
Yes. DLLs are always installed with 755 permissions. Packages that install
DLLs typically use libtool, which just does the right thing. I can't recall
offhand seeing a hand-written Makefile rule for installing a DLL, but I assume
it would use INSTALL or INSTALL_PROGRAM rather than INSTALL_DATA. It seems
strange to me to see INSTALL_DATA used for installing a library, but I'm not
really familiar with what's typically done on GNU/Linux, for example
>> Would it hurt anything on other platforms if the .eln files were installed with
>> 755 permissions? If so, I can submit a patch that does this just on Cygwin.
>
> Please define a new INSTALL_ELN macro for that purpose.
OK. But I'd like to hear first (maybe from Andrea?) whether there's a reason
for this to be Cygwin-specific, and whether INSTALL_DATA is in fact typically
used for installing libraries on other platforms.
Ken
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On 9/26/2021 12:57 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 9/26/2021 12:04 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Please define a new INSTALL_ELN macro for that purpose.
>
> OK. But I'd like to hear first (maybe from Andrea?) whether there's a reason
> for this to be Cygwin-specific, and whether INSTALL_DATA is in fact typically
> used for installing libraries on other platforms.
I decide to go ahead with a Cygwin-specific patch (attached). If Andrea or
someone else decides this would be good for all platforms, they can do that later.
OK to push?
Ken
[0001-Make-.eln-files-executable-on-Cygwin.patch (text/plain, attachment)]
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Message #17 received at 50818 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> From: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
> Cc: 50818 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 14:52:15 -0400
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> I decide to go ahead with a Cygwin-specific patch (attached). If Andrea or
> someone else decides this would be good for all platforms, they can do that later.
>
> OK to push?
Yes, please.
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On 9/27/2021 3:12 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
>> Cc: 50818 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 14:52:15 -0400
>>
>> I decide to go ahead with a Cygwin-specific patch (attached). If Andrea or
>> someone else decides this would be good for all platforms, they can do that later.
>>
>> OK to push?
>
> Yes, please.
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