Bill Hart wrote: > I still don't understand exactly what that means, but I get the > general gist, and agree it is not relevant here. > > So I think I can give this change a positive review as -p is certainly > not *less* standard than -a. > > I have a trac account. I'll change it to positive review. > > Bill.
Thank you. I gather OS X did not support -p either, so on OS X, just the 'cp' command was used. That would have been fine here actually. It basically just needs a single file copied. I think -p is universal, but -a is a GNU specific flag, which neither OS X or Solaris supports. Dave > On 6 July, 18:19, "Dr. David Kirkby" <[email protected]> wrote: >> Bill Hart wrote: >>> I see -a is the same as -dpR, and clearly -R is not needed as only one >>> file is copied. >>> What does the -d do? I don't understand the man file (not unusual, >>> linux man documentation is incomprehensible). >>> I would need to know what that does and whether it is needed before I >>> could give this patch a positive review. >>> Bill. >> -d is only relevant for symbolic links. >> >> -d same as --no-dereference --preserve=links >> >> Then the man page says that P or --no-dereference is 'never follow >> symbolic links.' >> >> -P, --no-dereference >> never follow symbolic links in SOURCE >> >> But -d has the option to preserve specific links. >> >> So for all practical purposes, since there are no links, -p is good enough. >> >> >> >> >> >>> On 6 July, 08:29, "Dr. David Kirkby" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Bill Hart wrote: >>>>> I've just released FLINT 1.4. Get it athttp://www.flintlib.org/ >>>> Note, if flint is updated, my fix for Solaris still needs a review at >>>> http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/6451 >>>> which fixes a GNUism in spkg-install, and is not a fault of flint. >>>> Perhaps someone could review that. It should not take too much time, as >>>> it is only a change of one byte, from the '-a' to the '-p' option of the >>>> 'cp' command. >>>> Only one file is copied, so there is no need for the copy to be recursive. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
