Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 23:03:48 -0700 From: "Peter W. Schmiedeskamp" <pschmied@selway.umt.edu> To: Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: porting question. Message-ID: <20020227060451.3C49037B443@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20020227041200.GA44309@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> References: <20020227040423.B503A37B402@hub.freebsd.org> <20020227041200.GA44309@wwweasel.geeksrus.net>
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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
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