> > No, this is not OK.
> >
> > I'd rather keep the simple current logic and either stick to cp -p, or
> > use a proper $(INSTALL_whatever) as done elsewhere rather than adding more
> > kludges.
>
> how do you mean, `proper $(INSTALL_whatever)'?
Using e.g. INSTALL_DATA from configure.
> I've run the cp -p under strace, which shows
>
> fgetxattr(3, "system.posix_acl_access", 0x7fff96829fd0, 132) = -1 ENODATA (No
> data available)
> fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=35368, ...}) = 0
> fsetxattr(4, "system.posix_acl_access",
> "\2\0\0\0\1\0\6\0\377\377\377\377\4\0\4\0\377\377\377\377
> \0\4\0\377\377\377\377", 28, 0) = -1 EOPNOTSUPP (Operation not supported)
>
> i.e. it tries to determine an extended attribute, is told there's none,
> tries to set that none on the destination and chokes if that doesn't
> work. Seems pretty insane to me.
>
> This is cp from coreutils 8.30 on Fedora 29, btw., not same ancient
> prehistoric software.
Did someone file a bug report there BTW?
Arno
