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Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:I'd start at the source. Give yourself POSIX-style access to the files to start with. 'cp' will preserve that access. 'cp' and many other utilities don't take ACL permissions into account. They are silently ignored. For whatever reason, it looks like your source file has no POSIX permissions for user, group, and other. Fix that with 'chmod' and I think you'll have solved your problem.
I struggle to give myself posix style permissions. I have a file README.txt in the root of my build source tree: $ getfacl README.txt # file: README.txt # owner: Tom # group: None user::--- group::--- group:SYSTEM:rwx group:Administrators:rwx group:Users:r-x mask:rwx other:---
If I then do chmod -- $ chmod 755 README.txt chmod: changing permissions of `README.txt': Permission denied
When I had that on Vista, I found running the Cygwin window as administrator allowed me to chmod stuff. I had to chmod the whole of /usr to something more useful. [Just in case you need it: right click the icon, then "run as administrator" is near the top of the menu. BYKT, I expect]
HTH Hugh
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