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From: Vlad Cojocaru (Vlad.Cojocaru_at_eml-r.villa-bosch.de)
Date: Mon Apr 14 2008 - 03:26:35 CDT

Hi John,

I believe you are right .. It should not matter whether those files are
executables. I've just thought that the permissions might have changed
while I checked out the files and that's why I asked. But if they were
checked in like this and if this is more convenient from your side, it
should be fine ... There is no reason to affect the compilation itself.

Are the latest test version (1.8.7a19) already compiled with python 2.5
and tcl 8.5? What Numeric version do you use for compiling ?

Best wishes
vlad

John Stone wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I believe the source files in public CVS may be marked as executable
> because we have scripts that copy our internal CVS repository to the externally
> accessible server. The scripts may do chmod -R ... type operations
> to make it impossible for CVS permissions to prevent access to the files
> by the unprivileged CVS server process. I haven't looked at the scripts
> in years, but that's my vague recollection. It shouldn't harm anything,
> though it may offend your sense of cleanliness to see all those source
> files set to be executable. :) I can look into this more closely if
> people actually care, but thus far it has never mattered to my knowledge,
> and it has prevented bad permissions in our internal tree from creating
> problems for external developers working from the public CVS.
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 04:00:12PM -0400, Axel Kohlmeyer wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008, Cojocaru,Vlad wrote:
>>
>> VC> Hi Alex,
>> VC>
>> VC> Thanks for replying !!
>> VC>
>>
>> VC> I had openSuse 10.0 and upgraded to the new 10.3 (on Athlon 64,
>> VC> 3500+)... I have just seen that all the checkout files were
>> VC> executables on my machine after checkout with cvs following exactly
>> VC> the recipe on the VMD web site ... I cannot explain why all files
>> VC> were executables if by default the permissions are preserved ...
>>
>> probably because they were checked in like this...
>> i checked my checkout and most, but not all files are executable.
>> it never made a difference in compiling, so...
>>
>> VC> Regarding my second question, I think you misunderstood ... I first
>> VC> downloaded the binaries for vmd-1.8.7a19 ... And with these binaries
>> VC> I had the python problem ... After seeing the problem (and having
>>
>> well, since you have suse and john is compiling on red hat, i'm not
>> surprised that there may be (small) differences. you'd have to install
>> _his_ compile of the python parts. if i remember correctly, he is not
>> building with tcl 8.5 (not 8.4), on top of that...
>>
>> with the diversity of distributions and the ways how people install
>> (or mutilate) them, the only way to have a binary consistent with your
>> distribution is to compile yourself. :-(
>>
>> VC> the problem so many times before with vmd versions earlier than
>> VC> 1.8.6) I thought that the simple solution is just to compile vmd and
>> VC> as I did it before I should be able to do it again ... And that's
>> VC> when I downloaded the code from CVS
>> VC>
>> VC> I did not do the compilation yet ...
>>
>> good luck,
>> axel.
>>
>>
>> VC> bets wishes
>> VC> vlad
>> VC>
>> VC>
>>
>> --
>> =======================================================================
>> Axel Kohlmeyer akohlmey_at_cmm.chem.upenn.edu http://www.cmm.upenn.edu
>> Center for Molecular Modeling -- University of Pennsylvania
>> Department of Chemistry, 231 S.34th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323
>> tel: 1-215-898-1582, fax: 1-215-573-6233, office-tel: 1-215-898-5425
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>> If you make something idiot-proof, the universe creates a better idiot.
>>
>
> 

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