IcedTea-Web HEAD distcheck broken

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 16:18 Fri 26 Aug     , Jiri Vanek wrote:

snip...

> >
> > This fix is incorrect.  You shouldn't be applying write permission to the entire build
> > directory and that's not the problem anyway.  You're copying files from the source
> > tree, but not fixing their permissions.
> 
> Well..agree.. It was shot. But as generated code do " chmod -R a-w $(distdir); chmod a+w $(distdir)" then it can not be cleaned!
> You know I'm autotolls-lame... Do you have any suggestion here?
> 

Not yet.  Still looking into what's actually going wrong here.

I did spot another problem which is that it should have failed way earlier during the
test but didn't due to the use of unnecessary escaping joining commands together.
It hits a permission denied error several times in copying over templates, but continues
to try (and fail) the tests.

> Thanx J.
> 
> ps chmod -R o+w $(abs_top_builddir) ; Is also wrong? :)

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