Hi, please ignore this. As it seems, the copy2 function in python 2.x does not support symlinks, while 3.x does.
Best, Gizo On Wednesday, June 22, 2016 17:53 CEST, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > Does not seem to be working as I expected. If the list has a directory with > soft links in it, then it works. > However, if I have only files in the list, like src/*.so, with some of them > to be symlinks, then it does not. > (I do not need to copy the whole src dir) > Is this intentional ? > > This seems to be due to if/elif in the makecp.py file, line ~130. > > Best wishes, > Gizo > > > On Wednesday, June 22, 2016 11:09 CEST, Kenneth Hoste > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Gizo, > > > > This was a bug in the MakeCp easyblock, it was fixed recently, cfr. > > > https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyblocks/pull/959. > > > > The fix will be included in the next EasyBuild release, but it should be > > trivial to apply this patch to your EasyBuild installation if you need it. > > > > > > regards, > > > > Kenneth > > > > On 22/06/16 10:56, [email protected] wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > it seems the easyblock MakeCp does not preserve links when copying > > > files from the list files_to_copy to destination directory. I do not see > > > that in its source code either. > > > > > > Eg. > > > > > > files_to_copy = [.., (["src/*.so"], 'lib'), ..] > > > > > > Here *.so consist of a file and a link referring to the file: > > >> tree > > > . > > > ├── liblammps_mpi.so > > > └── liblammps.so -> liblammps_mpi.so > > > > > > > > > However, after copying they now look as follows in the target dir.> >> > > > tree > > > . > > > ├── liblammps_mpi.so > > > └── liblammps.so > > > > > > Does Makecp have some option for similar case? > > > > > > Thank you. > > > Gizo > > > > > > > > > -- > > --
