On Tuesday 13 September 2005 23:25, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Mac OS X 10.4 (I'm running 10.4.2) ships with a cp command that does > not understand the `-l' option. Darwin ports has a coreutils port with > GNU cp, but installs it as gcp so as not to overshadow Apple's cp > command.
I guess backup-files can be used instead of cp -l. It tries to hardlink and falls back to copying if that fails, so it should also work in non-UNIX environments. (Copying is needed on UNIX when crossing filesystem boundaries.) > Similarly OS X's date command doesn't understand --rfc-822 among other > options used by quilt, and coreutils installs gdate. POSIX date unfortunately is too weak to be useful. > Okay, so I relent, quilt needs coreutils. This patch searches for and uses > gcp in preference to cp, and gdate in preference to date to workaround > these problems, provided there is an installed GNU cp called gcp etc. Could you please rediff against CVS HEAD? Thanks! -- Andreas. _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
