On Wed 2018-01-10 16:38:14 +0100, Antoine Amarilli wrote:

> My user has umask 077. When I do sudo make install, this umask seems to
> affect installation: the folders /usr/local/share/man/man* get created
> as belonging to root:staff with permissions 2700, so the installed
> manpages cannot be read by anyone except root. With the default umask of
> 002, however, the folders are correctly created with permissions 2755.
>
> It doesn't make sense to install manpages that only root can read, so
> wouldn't it be better if the Makefile somehow used a different umask
> when installing man pages?

how is the installation happening for you?  In Makefile.local, i see:

	install -m0644 $(filter %.1.gz,$(MAN_GZIP_FILES)) $(DESTDIR)/$(mandir)/man1
	install -m0644 $(filter %.5.gz,$(MAN_GZIP_FILES)) $(DESTDIR)/$(mandir)/man5
	install -m0644 $(filter %.7.gz,$(MAN_GZIP_FILES)) $(DESTDIR)/$(mandir)/man7

which suggests that the -m would override the umask.

is your installation doing something different somehow?

   --dkg