On cygwin, disable the check that the output is not group or world

writable. File permissions on Cygwin are rather complex, and in this
case this check introduced a problem with build jobs invoke from
outside of Cygwin (MSYS). It seemed almost impossible to fix the
permissions of the directory, so for now this safety check is disabled
on Cygwin.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/libstore/build.cc b/src/libstore/build.cc
index c80b3dfe97..c953707a51 100644
--- a/src/libstore/build.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/build.cc
@@ -1400,6 +1400,7 @@ void DerivationGoal::computeClosure()
                     % path % algo % printHash(h) % printHash(h2));
         }
 
+#ifndef __CYGWIN__
         /* Check that the output is not group or world writable, as
            that means that someone else can have interfered with the
            build.  Also, the output should be owned by the build
@@ -1407,6 +1408,7 @@ void DerivationGoal::computeClosure()
         if ((st.st_mode & (S_IWGRP | S_IWOTH)) ||
             (buildUser.getUID() != 0 && st.st_uid != buildUser.getUID()))
             throw Error(format("suspicious ownership or permission on `%1%'; rejecting this build output") % path);
+#endif
 
         /* Get rid of all weird permissions. */
 	canonicalisePathMetaData(path);