install-sh: support -s with read-only source

Problem reported by Karl Berry in:
https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-gnulib/2019-08/msg00067.html
* lib/install-sh: If -s is given, create the temporary file
with $cp_umask so that ‘strip’ can write to it.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/install-sh b/lib/install-sh
index 8175c640f..20d8b2eae 100755
--- a/lib/install-sh
+++ b/lib/install-sh
@@ -451,7 +451,18 @@ do
     trap 'ret=$?; rm -f "$dsttmp" "$rmtmp" && exit $ret' 0
 
     # Copy the file name to the temp name.
-    (umask $cp_umask && $doit_exec $cpprog "$src" "$dsttmp") &&
+    (umask $cp_umask &&
+     { test -z "$stripcmd" || {
+	 # Create $dsttmp read-write so that cp doesn't create it read-only,
+	 # which would cause strip to fail.
+	 if test -z "$doit"; then
+	   : >"$dsttmp" # No need to fork-exec 'touch'.
+	 else
+	   $doit touch "$dsttmp"
+	 fi
+       }
+     } &&
+     $doit_exec $cpprog "$src" "$dsttmp") &&
 
     # and set any options; do chmod last to preserve setuid bits.
     #