Re: server/519: gdb fails to configure since some configure scripts lack execute permission

[Ian Lance Taylor <ian@wasabisystems.com>]

Rainer Orth <ro@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> writes:

> >     This problam has not been fixed yet, so I am re-opening the bug.
> >     
> >     In gdb HEAD as of 2004-01-04:
> >     
> >       % ls -l $(find * -type f -name configure -print) | sort
> >       -rw-r--r--    1 mec.gnu  mgnu        30802 Apr 15  1999 gdb/testsuite/gdb.stabs/configure
> >       -rw-r--r--    1 mec.gnu  mgnu        30857 Aug 29 12:37 sim/testsuite/frv-elf/configure
> >       -rw-r--r--    1 mec.gnu  mgnu        60386 Jun 29  2003 gdb/gdbserver/configure
> >       -rw-r--r--    1 mec.gnu  mgnu       124468 Aug 29 12:35 sim/frv/configure
> 
> This is still unfixed in GDB 6.1 ;-(
> 
> >     Can I get someone to go into the repository and chmod these four files to 0755?
> 
> Can someone *please* fix this trivial but permanently annoying issue on the
> CVS server?  This is broken since at least GDB 5.2, but nobody bothered to
> spend the five seconds to fix it yet.

I ran chmod a+x for each of the four files on sourceware.

Due to the nature of CVS, this will affect new checkouts, but will not
affect existing working directories.

I will undo this if people complain.

Ian