So, I just ran into an interesting issue talking over Fedora patches with the upstream glew maintainer. glew installs its shared libraries 'manually', not using autotools / libtools; upstream installs them with permissions of 0644, and we patch this to 0755. After talking to upstream, they say they're following Debian conventions here; I don't have a Debian-land system to confirm, but they say on Debian and Ubuntu, all shared libs have 0644 permissions. In Fedora, they have to have 0755 or the auto-provides / auto-depends scripts don't work. So, is it true that the convention is 0644 in Debian and 0755 in Red Hat-land? If so, does anyone know why the difference, and if this needs to stay different forever? Also, I presume neither of us is patching several thousand shared library packages for this, so are the permissions usually set by libtool or something similar, and that's where the configuration is set? I just want to understand the situation better :) Thanks to anyone who knows about this. A cursory Google search didn't find any interesting information. I see http://serverfault.com/questions/173853/why-shared-libraries-on-linux-are-executable , but it seems a little confused. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
