--- sympow-v2.023.5/main.c.orig	2018-11-24 00:38:19.000000000 -0700
+++ sympow-v2.023.5/main.c	2019-06-26 13:03:21.425514068 -0600
@@ -112,11 +112,7 @@ static void prepare_main(char *argv0)
  if (stat(pkgdatafilesdir,&infod)) {free(pkgdatafilesdir); pkgdatafilesdir=NULL;}
  asprintf(&pkgdatafilesbindir,"%s/datafiles/"ENDIANTUPLE,pkgcachedir);
  if (stat(pkgdatafilesbindir,&infodb)) {mode_t mask=umask(0);
-  if (mkdir(pkgdatafilesbindir,(S_IRWXU|S_IRWXG|S_IRWXO|S_ISVTX)))
-	{if (VERBOSE>=1) fprintf(stderr,"**WARNING** failed to create data bin package cache folder %s\n",pkgdatafilesbindir);
-   free(pkgdatafilesbindir); pkgdatafilesbindir=NULL;}
-  else
-  {stat(pkgdatafilesbindir,&infodb); pkgdatamode= infodb.st_mode & ~MASK;}
+	pkgdatamode= infodb.st_mode & ~MASK;
 	umask(mask);}
  else
  {if (!S_ISDIR(infodb.st_mode))