On 01/04/2012 03:19 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > To the list: > > I am dealing with a primary Fedora machine and a alternate WinXP under > cygwin. Cygwin always screw up the permissions when I drag stuff over > to it and then bring it back to the Fedora box. I've got scripts to > handle making things right again. > > But I did have a question which I didn't find out from Googling (as I > suspect I didn't know how to phrase it). On a Fedora/Linux box, do > Makefile/makefile (s) have to be set to +x? Or can they be just > "rw-r--r--"? > > Makefile need not be executable....as they are just input to make.... egreshko@misty transcode-1.0.2]$ pwd /home/egreshko/src/transcode-1.0.2 [egreshko@misty transcode-1.0.2]$ ll Makefile -rw-rw-r-- 1 egreshko egreshko 25515 Nov 27 2005 Makefile [egreshko@misty transcode-1.0.2]$ make | more make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/home/egreshko/src/transcode-1.0.2' Making all in libtc make[2]: Entering directory `/home/egreshko/src/transcode-1.0.2/libtc' if /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -D_REENTRAN T -Wall -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -g -O2 -MT tc_functions.lo -MD -MP -MF ".deps/tc_functions.Tpo" -c -o tc_functions.lo tc_ functions.c; \ then mv -f ".deps/tc_functions.Tpo" ".deps/tc_functions.Plo"; else rm -f ".deps/tc _functions.Tpo"; exit 1; fi mkdir .libs etc.... -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -- Douglas Adams in "Mostly Harmless -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org