On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 16:01 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> On 14-05-2009 15:09:24 +0200, Markus Duft wrote:
> > Hey There!
> > 
> > I'm having troubles with libintl.so.8 beeing non-executable recently...
> > anybody else seeing this? i never noticed that before, and i'm sure i
> > had that gettext version merged in all recent bootstraps.
> > 
> > any ideas on who should make sure it _is_ executable? is it a bug in the
> > gettext build system (yeah it is :)), and is it a bug in portage (i.e.
> > should it make the .so executable?)?
> > 
> > i checked the ebuild - seems like nothing too suspicous going on.
> 
> Maybe this is something totally different, but doesn't the
> eclass/portage somewhere *remove* the executable bit of shared
> libraries?

hmm. have to look that up, but i guess what you mean is the handling
of .la files?. however it is strange because it is the _only_ .so that
is not executable. and of course non-executable shared libraries don't
work.

i'd like to avoid a chmod a+x :)

Cheers, Markus

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