From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Feb 26 22: 5: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from msslpop1.mssl.uswest.net (msslpop1.mssl.uswest.net [207.225.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C49037B443 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 22:04:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 23445 invoked by alias); 27 Feb 2002 06:04:50 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org@fixme Received: (qmail 23436 invoked by uid 0); 27 Feb 2002 06:04:50 -0000 Received: from dialupc103.mssl.uswest.net (HELO there) (209.180.184.103) by msslpop1.mssl.uswest.net with SMTP; 27 Feb 2002 06:04:50 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Peter W. Schmiedeskamp" To: Alan Eldridge Subject: Re: porting question. Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 23:03:48 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <20020227040423.B503A37B402@hub.freebsd.org> <20020227041200.GA44309@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> In-Reply-To: <20020227041200.GA44309@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020227060451.3C49037B443@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday 26 February 2002 09:12 pm, you wrote: > > No comment. Any Real Women (tm) here want to comment, though? > Touche. It was intended for humor, but perhaps some may take offense. My apologies. Henceforth, I shall use Real Person (tm) or I'll just omit jokes. > > A quick "man 2 umask" reveals that, yes, in fact, that is your problem. > I read the man page, and it sounded to me like that might have been the problem. I fear maybe I don't have the mental mettle for being a porter, as I'm still not quite sure what to do with the knowledge contained in this man page. Can anyone reccommend a good default umask value for porting, and how I should go about setting that (it looks like I set the umask of a process, but I'm not sure how I would go about that in the Makefile) > > The sentence quoted below is the first place you're going wrong. If > you're going to contribute, you should be subscribed to the mailing > list. > Again, you've caught me, I'll subscribe. > > Maybe this once. Thank you for your help. -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message