On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Richard Purdie <richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 09:06 +0100, Hans Beckérus wrote: >> I am having some trouble with these patches :( The new approach is >> using the '-n' flag to the 'cp' command. >> That is not supported on our SuSE11 based system. To be honest, I do >> not know how portable '-n' is? >> Some system have it, others seems to provide '-u' instead. I guess by >> removing '-n' part of the performance gain is lost? >> Would it be possible to test for error from the 'cp' command and if it >> fails try '-u' instead (and cache the result)? Or maybe >> even better, make this configurable in local.conf (or the distro) for >> the build platforms that does not support '-n' but can >> instead fall-back to using '-u'. From what I can tell most systems >> support one or the other, but never both. > > http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/commit/?h=rpurdie/t2&id=276b9df3588ecd438c3e2f502d56cd6b9fb24676 > > Thankfully the above works just as well. I used -n to get rid of an > error, then added -l for efficiency. We can get away just with -l. > Great! Will try it asap. Btw, cp was from coreutils back in 2008.
cp (GNU coreutils) 6.12 Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Thanks. Hans > Cheers, > > Richard > > _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core