not updating unwritable cache ../config.cache

Fri Mar 24 15:25:00 GMT 2000

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [ mailto:lhall@rfk.com ]
> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 4:27 PM
> To: John Wiersba; cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: not updating unwritable cache ../config.cache
>>> At 04:02 PM 3/24/00, John Wiersba wrote:
> >1) The following never works for me
> > [[ -w FILE ]] && echo ok
> >even if the file *is* writable by me.
>>> This is known. You won't get the test to work unless the 
> permission you
> are checking is available "across the board". Corinna has made some 
> changes to address this under NT/NTFS in later snapshots but 
> that won't
> be any solution for 9x platforms AFAIK. You might want to 
> check your umask
> setting and make sure it doesn't mask out write permissions for group 
> and others...

I saw the "across the board" mentioned in the faq or user guide. Is there a
work-around? Perl's cpan command is totally broken because of this.
Is it fixed in one of the later snapshots? I don't want to be on the
bleeding edge, but I do want to be able to compile the cygwin code on my
machine. Is there a relatively stable snapshot I should upgrade to?
Thanks,
John
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