>Should the default installation of the gnu g++ compiler * not * grant
>everyone access (ignoring for a moment the capabilities it requires)?

Sorry - too many negatives and I'm not sure if you WANT it to be
restrictive or not.

I must apologize that sometimes when I build the thing and install it on
my machine before building a distribution, I forget to reset my umask, so
files get created more restrictively than they probably should. Some
versions of the FREEWARE distribution are correct, some are not - hard to
say which one you've got.

In any event, here is a quick way to "fix" the permissions:

In the shell, cd to /usr/local and do the following:

chmod -R o+r *
find . -perm -u+x -exec chmod o+x {} \;

There is a required blank between the '{}' and the '\;' above. The first
line above makes everything readable to everyone and does it recursively.
The second line finds all files that are executable by the creator, and
allows everyone to execute them.

Hope this saves you some typing :-)

Regards,


M.