Re: [Mingw-msys] Problem with chmod

["SN" <vick.ram79@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, I have been trying to get a working build of GIMP on my Vista going.
But the failed results had me suspecting the file permissions. But if, what 
you say, is the case, then
I am not sure whats going on.

On the Msys window I give the command "make Install", and I get the 
following error:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
$ make install
Making install in m4macros
make[1]: Entering directory `/C/PROjects/gimp/gimp-2.3.18/m4macros'
make[2]: Entering directory `/C/PROjects/gimp/gimp-2.3.18/m4macros'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
test -z "/usr/local/share/aclocal" || mkdir -p -- "/usr/local/share/aclocal"
 /bin/install -c -m 644 'gimp-2.0.m4' '/usr/local/share/aclocal/gimp-2.0.m4'
/bin/sh: /bin/install: Permission denied
make[2]: *** [install-m4dataDATA] Error 126
make[2]: Leaving directory `/C/PROjects/gimp/gimp-2.3.18/m4macros'
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/C/PROjects/gimp/gimp-2.3.18/m4macros'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
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Any ideas what could be going on?

thanks,
Sunil
PS: I am totally new to the *nix ways.

"Keith Marshall" 
<keithmarshall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in 
message news:200707292257.59814.keithmarshall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Sunday 29 July 2007 20:16, Sunil wrote:
> I give the following command:
> $ chmod -vR 777 /usr/local/share/
> mode of `/usr/local/share' changed to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx)
> mode of `/usr/local/share/aclocal' changed to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx)
> mode of `/usr/local/share/aclocal/gimp-2.0.m4' changed to 0777
> (rwxrwxrwx) mode of `/usr/local/share/aclocal/gimp-2.0.m4/tyr'
> changed to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx)
>
> It shows that the permissions have been changed correctly.
> But they are not shown as changed when I ls the same folder.
>
> $ ls -lg /usr/local/share/
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x 3 wiseguy Administ 0 Jul 28 17:14 aclocal
>
> Is there something funky going on?

No.  Woe32 file system attributes simply don't match the *nix model `ls'
expects.  You should be able to access the files, as you require; don't
place too much faith in the permissions shown by `ls'.

Regards,
Keith.

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