Mike Stump <mikest...@comcast.net> writes:
> On Apr 25, 2014, at 6:41 AM, Rainer Orth <r...@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de>
> wrote:
>> When trying to install a freshly built gcc 4.9.0 on Solaris 9 and 10, I
>> ran into make install failures when using INSTALL_DATA_DATE:
>
> Ick, I hate this patch. You kill error checking for all, on something
> that is important, just because someone didn’t use a proper install
> script. The proper install script would use enough options to tell it
> to copy all but not the things it cannot… For example, if you actively
> strip acts from the source and then copy, it should not fail. If it
> does, then it sounds like a bug in cp.
Agreed that this is ugly: ACL support in GNU coreutils has long been a
total mess; no idea if it has improved very recently.
OTOH, error handling for INSTALL_DATA_DATE is already inconsistent: one
instance ignores errors, two others don't, with no apparent reason for
the difference.
Rainer
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