hi,
when installing pike, dumped .o files are installed only with user permissions:
i am building and installing pike on fedora 12: the same is the case for the previously released 7.8.352
ls -la /usr/local/pike/7.8.530/lib/modules/*.o -rw------- 1 root root 16734 2011-01-26 17:49 /usr/local/pike/7.8.530/lib/modules/Arg.pmod.o -rw------- 1 root root 42028 2011-01-26 17:48 /usr/local/pike/7.8.530/lib/modules/Array.pmod.o -rw------- 1 root root 570 2011-01-26 17:49 /usr/local/pike/7.8.530/lib/modules/__builtin_dirnode.pmod.o -rw------- 1 root root 60 2011-01-26 17:48 /usr/local/pike/7.8.530/lib/modules/__builtin.pmod.o -rw------- 1 root root 2060 2011-01-26 17:49 /usr/local/pike/7.8.530/lib/modules/Colors.pmod.o -rw------- 1 root root 1077 2011-01-26 17:49 /usr/local/pike/7.8.530/lib/modules/Error.pmod.o -rw------- 1 root root 409 2011-01-26 17:48 /usr/local/pike/7.8.530/lib/modules/Float.pmod.o -rw------- 1 root root 30 2011-01-26 17:48 /usr/local/pike/7.8.530/lib/modules/Fuse.pmod.o -rw------- 1 root root 12260 2011-01-26 17:49 /usr/local/pike/7.8.530/lib/modules/Getopt.pmod.o -rw------- 1 root root 30 2011-01-26 17:48 /usr/local/pike/7.8.530/lib/modules/GTK2.pmod.o -rw------- 1 root root 30 2011-01-26 17:48 /usr/local/pike/7.8.530/lib/modules/GTK.pmod.o -rw------- 1 root root 13077 2011-01-26 17:48 /usr/local/pike/7.8.530/lib/modules/Gz.pmod.o -rw------- 1 root root 3032 2011-01-26 17:48 /usr/local/pike/7.8.530/lib/modules/_Image_DWG.pmod.o -rw------- 1 root root 14587 2011-01-26 17:49 /usr/local/pike/7.8.530/lib/modules/_Image_PSD.pmod.o -rw------- 1 root root 14475 2011-01-26 17:48 /usr/local/pike/7.8.530/lib/modules/_Image_PS.pmod.o -rw------- 1 root root 9857 2011-01-26 17:48 /usr/local/pike/7.8.530/lib/modules/_Image_TIFF.pmod.o -rw------- 1 root root 25185 2011-01-26 17:49 /usr/local/pike/7.8.530/lib/modules/_Image_XCF.pmod.o -rw------- 1 root root 9100 2011-01-26 17:49 /usr/local/pike/7.8.530/lib/modules/_Image_XPM.pmod.o -rw------- 1 root root 5624 2011-01-26 17:48 /usr/local/pike/7.8.530/lib/modules/Int.pmod.o -rw------- 1 root root 29270 2011-01-26 17:48 /usr/local/pike/7.8.530/lib/modules/Java.pmod.o -rw------- 1 root root 1809 2011-01-26 17:48 /usr/local/pike/7.8.530/lib/modules/Local.pmod.o -rw------- 1 root root 4488 2011-01-26 17:49 /usr/local/pike/7.8.530/lib/modules/Mapping.pmod.o -rw------- 1 root root 10856 2011-01-26 17:48 /usr/local/pike/7.8.530/lib/modules/Math.pmod.o -rw------- 1 root root 112 2011-01-26 17:49 /usr/local/pike/7.8.530/lib/modules/Multiset.pmod.o -rw------- 1 root root 201 2011-01-26 17:49 /usr/local/pike/7.8.530/lib/modules/Object.pmod.o -rw------- 1 root root 16228 2011-01-26 17:49 /usr/local/pike/7.8.530/lib/modules/Process.pmod.o -rw------- 1 root root 784 2011-01-26 17:48 /usr/local/pike/7.8.530/lib/modules/Program.pmod.o -rw------- 1 root root 3608 2011-01-26 17:48 /usr/local/pike/7.8.530/lib/modules/Regexp.pmod.o -rw------- 1 root root 186 2011-01-26 17:48 /usr/local/pike/7.8.530/lib/modules/System.pmod.o -rw------- 1 root root 17363 2011-01-26 17:48 /usr/local/pike/7.8.530/lib/modules/Thread.pmod.o -rw------- 1 root root 2510 2011-01-26 17:48 /usr/local/pike/7.8.530/lib/modules/Yp.pmod.o
greetings, martin.