#12347: make install broken in Sage 4.8
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Reporter: zimmerma | Owner: GeorgSWeber
Type: defect | Status: needs_work
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-5.0
Component: build | Keywords:
Work_issues: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Author:
Merged: | Dependencies:
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Changes (by jhpalmieri):
* status: needs_review => needs_work
Comment:
You shouldn't use the options `-u`, `-v`, or `-R` for cp. Re `-r`, the
man page for cp on OS X says
{{{
Historic versions of the cp utility had a -r option. This
implementation supports that
option; however, its use is strongly discouraged, as it does not
correctly copy special
files, symbolic links, or fifo's.
}}}
The OS X version of cp doesn't recognize the `-u` option at all. The
Solaris version of cp doesn't support `-u` or `-v`.
Make sure to only use Posix-standard options; I think
[http://pwet.fr/man/linux/commandes/posix/cp this web page] is accurate.
Along the same lines, on Solaris (and perhaps other platforms), `ln -f`
doesn't behave the way it does on linux; see the comment on line 71 of the
file SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/sage-build.
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