Re: [Caml-list] ANN: CamlPDF 1.7

[Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>]

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Looks like Oliver installed as root, and maybe there was a restrictive
umask. In that case, setting a better umask (e.g. umask 002) before
"make install" would be the solution. But that's the user's problem,
IMHO.

Gerd

Am Donnerstag, den 15.08.2013, 15:28 +0100 schrieb John Whitington:
> Hi,
> 
> oliver wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:21:44PM +0100, John Whitington wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> The first new release of the CamlPDF library for a while is here:
> >>
> >> http://www.github.com/johnwhitington/camlpdf
> > [...]
> >
> >
> > This is really wonderful (hot) software :-)
> >
> > Thanks a lot! :-)
> >
> > But I had problems installing/using it.
> >
> > The lib was installed under /usr/local/lib/ocaml/...
> > wchis is fine.
> >
> > But the permissions were set so, that only
> > root could access it.
> >
> > It needed as root to do (in the directory which contains camlpdf-directory):
> >
> >    # chmod go+r camlpdf
> >    # cd camlpdf
> >    # chmod go+r *
> >
> >
> > After that, it could be used.
> > I tried just pdfdraft and it did it's job.
> >
> > So, thanks again for this library. :-)
> > I will be eager to explore it.
> 
> The installation is handled by ocamlfind, via OCamlMakefile in a 
> completely standard way, so there shouldn't be any problem.
> 
> However, I know very little about build and packaging systems. Does 
> someone on the list recognize this symptom and how it might be fixed at 
> source?
> 
> With Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> John Whitington
> Director, Coherent Graphics Ltd
> http://www.coherentpdf.com/
> 
> 

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