Thanks for the report.
That was left over from when I was debugging part of autoconf.
It should not have made it into fileutils' configure script.
It won't happen again.
Jens Schleusener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Hello,
|
| I just tried to configure and compile fileutils-4.0.39 under AIX 4.1.4
| and got a small error (fileutils-4.0.36 hasn't that problem):
|
| ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/contrib --disable-nls \
| --program-prefix=gnu
|
| cp: illegal option -- a
| Usage: cp [-fhip] [-r|-R] [--] src target
| or: cp [-fhip] [-r|-R] [--] src1 ... srcN directory
| checking build system type... rs6000-ibm-aix4.1.4.0
| checking host system type... rs6000-ibm-aix4.1.4.0
| (... lines deleted)
|
| The reason seems to be the following code in configure
|
| echo "#! $SHELL" >conftest.sh
| echo "exit 0" >>conftest.sh
| cp -a conftest.sh /tmp
| chmod +x conftest.sh
|
| The option "-a" seems to me not very portable (GNU cp specific?).
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