> From: Reiner Steib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Zhang Wei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:44:18 +0200 > > I'm not aware of any cp implementation that doesn't support `-p' and I > didn't find anything wrt this in (info "(autoconf)Limitations of Usual > Tools"). Do you have any example of a cp without `-p'?
The original Unix `cp' didn't, and I don't know what ancient ports people are using on Windows. Anyway, I found a way to copy Lisp files without relying on -p, and installed a suitable change in the CVS. As a nice side effect, we no longer copy to the destination directory unrelated files, such as the CVS subdirectory and README and ChangeLog files, just like on Unix. > > And I'd like us to understand the problem (which doesn't seem to > > happen to me) better before we consider solutions. > > (I agree with this.) The OP sent me a transcript of the copy commands after adding -v to the `cp' switches, which clearly show that the order of copying is arbitrary and therefore cannot be relied upon. _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
