* NEWS: Mention that `install-sh' needs executable permissions.

* tests/nobase.test: Adjust.
Report by Patrick Welche.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index df888d5978f1ba4b43741c080c41b5a839ec96a1..b67b13b670edcb720f06c1f8df5d57943f5bedfa 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2006-09-05  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       * NEWS: Mention that `install-sh' needs executable permissions.
+       * tests/nobase.test: Adjust.
+       Report by Patrick Welche.
+
 2006-09-01  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 
        * lib/am/check.am (check-TESTS): Fix matching of XFAIL_TESTS

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e4cb2db43f587f3c7c922a8ef4a2e5b1cb9aabcb..74238d3d8cd4f9f679c7dabe5aa4d72c0f9d4475 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+New in 1.9c:
+
+* Miscellaneous changes:
+
+  - The script `install-sh' needs to have executable permissions for
+    a package to work correctly.  The permissions may have been lost
+    by work of a patch or version control tool.
+
 New in 1.9b:
 
 * Version requirements:

diff --git a/tests/nobase.test b/tests/nobase.test
index eb2ab19e07ea319e290f15737eb78142f5a89225..97ae36702421ef3f24be2f02a3ef1fc2f3cf8cff 100755 (executable)
--- a/tests/nobase.test
+++ b/tests/nobase.test
@@ -116,14 +116,6 @@ $AUTOCONF
 $AUTOMAKE -a --copy
 ./configure --prefix `pwd`/inst --program-prefix=p
 
-# Remove the 'x' bits just for fun.  (Peter O'Gorman said: "If an
-# upstream source tarball does not use the autotools, it is sometimes
-# easier to build if it is modified to use them. Then a patch is
-# generated, and applied to the unpacked clean sources during the
-# build. patch(1) knows nothing about permissions, so executable bits
-# etc can disappear.")
-chmod a-x install-sh
-
 $MAKE
 $MAKE test-install-data
 $MAKE test-install-exec