[news.eclipse.technology.equinox] Re: PDE build don't set execute permis

[Laurent Marchal <lmarchal@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the information Andrew. I will follow the bug tracker with 
great interest.

Laurent.


Andrew Niefer a écrit :
> It is somewhat related to using the p2 director.
> Assuming that the metadata is set up properly, the director should be 
> setting the executable bit, this should happen by default for normal 
> product builds.
>
> Generally, the problem is that when using the director, pde.build is no 
> longer directly in control of what files are in the final result.  Ant's 
> zip which is the default archive format does not preserve file 
> permissions and they must be specified explicitly when creating the 
> archive.  We ran out of time in 3.5 and didn't get this part working.
>
> In a headless build (on nix systems), you can set the archiveFormat to 
> "zip" or "tar", both of which using the native tools which will preserve 
> permissions.
>
> There is bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=282260
>
> -Andrew
> Laurent Marchal wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >     Since I updated to galileo release, I noticed that the launchers 
> > created for unix systems (Linux/OSX) has no execute permissions 
> > anymore. We have to "chmod +x" the launcher to be able to run it.
> >
> > Is this a p2 director related problem ? how can I put this execute 
> > right automatically ?
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Laurent Marchal.