Hi Jim, Thanks for looking. I'll fiddle the strdup. Also:
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Jim Meyering <[email protected]> wrote: >> aware. Anyway, with a reasonably recent "libopts" >> installation, you can clone this, unroll the .tar >> file and build: >> >> git://github.com/brkorb/pcopy.git Meaning to avoid the re-generation of the *opts.[ch] files with the "tar" files. Perhaps: tar -xf *.tar ; touch stamp-* ; touch *opts.[ch] I added stuff (die, vdie and fserr functions) to the output and our gnutls friends really wanted the elimination of all NLS code, hence the new "anything" value for "no-xlate". > So far, it seems like you're the only one to find this useful. > But now that you've identified the problem and have a solution, > who knows... maybe a lot of people will come forward and say your > tool makes a big difference for them. As long as they both look for and find this solution. Part of my reasoning for making it a "cp" option. > What do you think about distributing it separately for now, > and we reconsider if/when there's more demand? Sure, but it is finding the demand. And, of course, wanting to avoid the maintenance of yet another package... :) Cheers - Bruce
