I noticed a problem when building 'sage-4.1.alpha2.spkg'. It complains
ld: fatal: library -lflint: not found
But the flint package indicates it was installed. However, when I tried
to build flint again, I see this error message:
Deleting old FLINT
Installing new library file
cp: illegal option -- a
Usage: cp [-f] [-i] [-p] [...@] f1 f2
cp [-f] [-i] [-p] [...@] f1 ... fn d1
cp -r|-R [-H|-L|-P] [-f] [-i] [-p] [...@] d1 ... dn-1 dn
It's clear flint is making use of some GNU-specific option to 'cp' The
fact the copy fails means of course the library does not get installed.
Does anyone know if one really needs that specific option to cp, or
could one do it by a more portable method?
The usual 'cp' command used on Solaris is the one in /usr/bin. The
options for it are below.
I need to do something else now, so don't have time to look at it. I
guess we are not too bothered if the modification times of files are
preserved or things like that.
If anyone has any comments, post them. If not, I'll have a look at
trying to change it so it works with a more standard copy command,
without need for GNU specific options.
Dave
User Commands cp(1)
NAME
cp - copy files
SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/cp [-...@] source_file target_file
/usr/bin/cp [-...@] source_file... target
/usr/bin/cp -r | -R [-H | -L | -P] [-...@] source_dir... target
/usr/xpg4/bin/cp [-...@] source_file target_file
/usr/xpg4/bin/cp [-...@] source_file... target
/usr/xpg4/bin/cp -r | -R [-H | -L | -P] [-...@] source_dir... target
DESCRIPTION
In the first synopsis form, neither source_file nor
target_file are directory files, nor can they have the same
name. The cp utility copies the contents of source_file to
the destination path named by target_file. If target_file
exists, cp overwrites its contents, but the mode (and ACL if
applicable), owner, and group associated with it are not
changed. The last modification time of target_file and the
last access time of source_file are set to the time the copy
was made. If target_file does not exist, cp creates a new
file named target_file that has the same mode as source_file
except that the sticky bit is not set unless the user is
super-user. In this case, the owner and group of target_file
are those of the user, unless the setgid bit is set on the
directory containing the newly created file. If the
directory's setgid bit is set, the newly created file has
the group of the containing directory rather than of the
creating user. If target_file is a link to another file, cp
overwrites the link destination with the contents of
source_file; the link(s) from target_file remains.
In the second synopsis form, one or more source_files are
copied to the directory specified by target. It is an error
if any source_file is a file of type directory, if target
either does not exist or is not a directory.
In the third synopsis form, one or more directories speci-
fied by source_dir are copied to the directory specified by
target. Either -r or -R must be specified. For each
source_dir, cp copies all files and subdirectories.
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OPTIONS
The following options are supported for both /usr/bin/cp and
/usr/xpg4/bin/cp:
-f Unlink. If a file descriptor for a destination file
cannot be obtained, this option attempts to unlink the
destination file and proceed.
-H Takes actions based on the type and contents of the
file referenced by any symbolic link specified as a
source_file operand.
If the source_file operand is a symbolic link, then cp
copies the file referenced by the symbolic link for
the source_file operand. All other symbolic links
encountered during traversal of a file hierarchy are
preserved.
-i Interactive. cp prompts for confirmation whenever the
copy would overwrite an existing target. A y answer
means that the copy should proceed. Any other answer
prevents cp from overwriting target.
-L Takes actions based on the type and contents of the
file referenced by any symbolic link specified as a
source_file operand or any symbolic links encountered
during traversal of a file hierarchy.
Copies files referenced by symbolic links. Symbolic
links encountered during traversal of a file hierarchy
are not preserved.
-P Takes actions on any symbolic link specified as a
source_file operand or any symbolic link encountered
during traversal of a file hierarchy.
Copies symbolic links. Symbolic links encountered dur-
ing traversal of a file hierarchy are preserved.
-r Recursive. cp copies the directory and all its files,
including any subdirectories and their files to tar-
get. Unless the -H, -L, or -P option is specified, the
-L option is used as the default mode.
-R Same as -r, except pipes are replicated, not read
from.
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-@ Preserves extended attributes. cp attempts to copy all
of the source file's extended attributes along with
the file data to the destination file.
Specifying more than one of the mutually-exclusive options
-H, -L, and -P is not considered an error. The last option
specified determines the behavior of the utility.
/usr/bin/cp
The following option is supported for /usr/bin/cp only:
-p Preserve. cp duplicates not only the contents of
source_file, but also preserves the owner and group
id, permission modes, modification and access time,
ACLs, and extended attributes, if applicable. The com-
mand can fail if ACLs are copied to a file system
without appropriate support. The command does not fail
if unable to preserve extended attributes, modifica-
tion and access time, or permission modes. If unable
to preserve owner and group id, cp does not fail, and
it clearsS_ISUID and S_ISGID bits in the target. cp
prints a diagnostic message to stderr and return a
non-zero exit status if unable to clear these bits.
In order to preserve the owner and group id, permis-
sion modes, and modification and access times, users
must have the appropriate file access permissions.
This includes being superuser or the same owner id as
the destination file.
When both -p and -@ options are specified, the -p
option determines the behavior. However, the command
can fail if unable to preserve extended attributes.
/usr/xpg4/bin/cp
The following option is supported for /usr/xpg4/bin/cp only:
-p Preserve. cp duplicates not only the contents of
source_file, but also preserves the owner and group
id, permission modes, modification and access time,
ACLs, and extended attributes, if applicable. The com-
mand can fail if ACLs are copied to a file system
without appropriate support. The command does not fail
if unable to preserve extended attributes. If unable
to duplicate the modification and access time or the
permission modes, cp prints a diagnostic message to
stderr and return a non-zero exit status. If unable to
preserve owner and group id, cp does not fail, and it
clearsS_ISUID and S_ISGID bits in the target. cp
prints a diagnostic message to stderr and return a
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non-zero exit status if unable to clear these bits.
In order to preserve the owner and group id, permis-
sion modes, and modification and access times, users
must have the appropriate file access permissions.
This includes being superuser or the same owner id as
the destination file.
When both -p and -@ options are specified, the last
specified -p or -@ option determines the behavior.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
source_file A pathname of a regular file to be copied.
source_dir A pathname of a directory to be copied.
target_file A pathname of an existing or non-existing
file, used for the output when a single file
is copied.
target A pathname of a directory to contain the
copied files.
USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of cp
when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte (
2^31 bytes).
EXAMPLES
Example 1 Copying a File
The following example copies a file:
example% cp goodies goodies.old
example% ls goodies*
goodies goodies.old
Example 2 Copying a List of Files
The following example copies a list of files to a destina-
tion directory:
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example% cp ~/src/* /tmp
Example 3 Copying a Directory
The following example copies a directory, first to a new,
and then to an existing destination directory
example% ls ~/bkup
/usr/example/fred/bkup not found
example% cp -r ~/src ~/bkup
example% ls -R ~/bkup
x.c y.c z.sh
example% cp -r ~/src ~/bkup
example% ls -R ~/bkup
src x.c y.c z.sh
src:
x.c y.c z.s
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment
variables that affect the execution of cp: LANG, LC_ALL,
LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, and NLSPATH.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 All files were copied successfully.
>0 An error occurred.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri-
butes:
/usr/bin/cp
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____________________________________________________________
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
| Availability | SUNWcsu |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
| CSI | Enabled |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
| Interface Stability | Stable |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
/usr/xpg4/bin/cp
____________________________________________________________
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
| Availability | SUNWxcu4 |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
| CSI | Enabled |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
| Interface Stability | Standard |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
SEE ALSO
chmod(1), chown(1), setfacl(1), utime(2), attributes(5),
environ(5), fsattr(5), largefile(5), standards(5)
NOTES
The permission modes of the source file are preserved in the
copy.
A -- permits the user to mark the end of any command line
options explicitly, thus allowing cp to recognize filename
arguments that begin with a -.
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