Re: Problem with MSVC install script

Hrrm. I wonder how likely that is, but I can see it's a problem.

That said, it's probably not a bad idea to fix it anyway - it would
correspond to setting the permissions on a unix install, which we do.

For the xcopy commansd, it should be easier to just add a /R switch. But
most files are copied using the internal perl stuff - anybody know if those
can be made to overwrite readonly files easily?

Also, do we really want to remove the readonly file on all the files in the
target dir including subdirs? That may hit a bunch of files that aren't
actualliy "ours". Perhaps we need to process it on a file-by-file basis?

//Magnus

On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 02:59:54AM -0400, Chuck McDevitt wrote:
> Well, I was checking out from a different cvs server, and had things set
> to use CVS EDIT, where everything is read-only by default, until you
> issue a cvs edit command.
> So many files that aren't built by the build system, but just get copied
> as-is, end up read-only.
>
> But it would be true for any files set read-only.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andrew Dunstan [mailto:andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net]
> > Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 7:45 PM
> > To: Chuck McDevitt
> > Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Problem with MSVC install script
> >
> >
> >
> > Chuck McDevitt wrote:
> > >
> > > I was trying out the msvc support, and ran into a minor problem in
> > the
> > > install.bat/install.pl
> > >
> > > If any files that are going to be installed are marked read-only,
> > they
> > > carry the read-only attribute with them when they get copied to the
> > > install dir.
> > >
> > > Then, if you try to run install again, the new attempt will fail
> > > because it can't overwrite the read-only file.
> > >
> > > I added this like to install.bat (just before the call to
> install.pl)
> > > to fix this for me:
> > >
> > > attrib /S -r %1\*
> > >
> >
> >
> > Which files are read-only?
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > andrew
>
>
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