On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 04:14:58PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > "cp -p" has some unfortunate side-effects (some versions copy the ownership > > of the original file in addition to the protection) > > Why is that bad? Those files are typically header files that the > compiler needs to compile the program. If we can live with the original > ownership when building from the source tree, why can't we live with the > same ownership if we build from another directory? What am I missing?
I had in mind that someone's likely to try to use the same script for installing files that use symbolic links. -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
