install did not set good permissions on new directories

[Ka-Hing Cheung]

On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 14:11 -0600, Jeff Smith wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 March 2008 21:25, Ka-Hing Cheung wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 21:11 -0600, Jeff Smith wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I finally got "pidgin-2.3.1.tar.bz2" working on suse 10.0 last
> > > week. It took a while because `make install` did not seem to give
> > > a normal user permission to read the subdirectories it created. I
> > > was able to run pidgin, but it had no icons, no purple, no chat
> > > protocols available...
> > >
> > > Finally I wrote a script that added o+rx to the folders. The
> > > files in them did have appropriate permissions.
> > >
> > > Hopefully you've got that fixed in pidgin-2.4.0, but I thought I
> > > might ask.
> >
> > What's your umask?
> 
> I installed it as root (looks like umask 022) but I did compile it 
> with my userid, umask 007

Did you use sudo, or su -? If it's the former, maybe sudo is keeping
your user's environment.

your umask is masking out all the permissions for world. Fix your umask
to me something more reasonable and make install again.

-khc