[cmake-developers] Clarification requested on #10126 (CMake creates files with wrong permissions)

[Ben Boeckel]

On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 21:52:26 -0000, James Johnston wrote:
>     d.  If the answer to (c) is yes, should that keyword become the default,
> subject to a new policy?  (And introduction of a different NO_RESPECT_UMASK
> keyword).

FWIW, the install(1) tool does not respect umask by default (and has no
option for it), so I think the default should be to ignore the umask.
Having an option is fine, but it should be documented that this is
non-standard behavior in terms of what most (autotools) installs do.

--Ben