installation permission

Rong-En Fan rafan at infor.org
Tue Oct 24 10:40:37 CEST 2006


Hi,

I found that in 4.2.0, most Makefile uses 'cp -p' to install 
programs, manaul pages, etc. This will result in wrong ownership
if you build as a normal user and install by root.

I'm wondering why not using 'install' so we can handle ownership
and permission at the same file?

Regards,
Rong-En Fan
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