Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
> William Stein wrote:
>> sage: An error occurred while installing database_cremona_ellcurve-20071019
>>
>> I'm really surprised that this fails, given that it is just extracting
>> and copying over a directory -- nothing gets built. Maybe it is a
>> GNU-ism to copy, or a GNU-istic tarball? Could you try that one
>> directly?
>
> ****************************************************
> cp: illegal option -- v
> 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
>
> real 0m0.029s
> user 0m0.006s
> sys 0m0.019s
> sage: An error occurred while installing database_cremona_ellcurve-20071019
>
> That's a GNUism - see
>
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/cp.html
>
> there is no -v option for 'cp' in POSIX. That should be easy to fix.
Do you want me to create a trac ticket for this and fix it? The fix is trivial,
as the -v option on GNU's 'cp' is just:
-v, --verbose
explain what is being done
I do not see optional packages as high on the priority list for Solaris (more
fundamental issues that stop it building if Sun Studio is installed, or prevent
the binary being created) are higher priority, but this is such a trivial fix,
it might as well be done.
Dave
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