In an ideal world you would replace 'cp' with a working version.

Lacking root permissions, you can make  shell script named 'cp' that 
removes the -p option.





On Wednesday, May 9, 2012 9:10:03 PM UTC-4, Kevin wrote:
>
> Linux dkar.research.pdx.edu 2.6.18-274.3.1.el5xen #1 SMP Tue Sep 6 
> 20:57:11 EDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> cp -p ../include/NTL/*.h /n/
> oregano.cic.pdx.edu/export/vol-apps/apps-linux-x86_64/user/src/sage-4.8/local/include/NTL
>  
> cp: preserving permissions for `/n/
> oregano.cic.pdx.edu/export/vol-apps/apps-linux-x86_64/user/src/sage-4.8/local/include/NTL/c_lip.h':
>  
> Operation not supported
> cp: preserving ACL for `/n/
> oregano.cic.pdx.edu/export/vol-apps/apps-linux-x86_64/user/src/sage-4.8/local/include/NTL/c_lip.h':
>  
> Operation not supported
>
> Everything seems to go fine until the makefiles attempt do this cp -p 
> thing, where it just explodes in a flurry of errors. This happens under a 
> number of different packages. I've manually removed the -p from a few of 
> them and it seemed to work well enough, but after doing this three times I 
> attempted a zsh/perl(sed style) script that unpacks, edits, and repacks 
> everything back into spkg files. That didn't seem to work properly, at all. 
> I didn't save the output from that attempt as I threw my hands up and 
> decided to not pursue that vector of attack. There are possibly some places 
> where the cp -p is necessary to this whole operation.
>
> Anyway, I thought It was about time to ask for some help.
>
> Help?
>
>

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