Hi Bjoern, On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 05:36:02AM +0100, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 23:17:34 +0100 > Francois Tigeot <ftig...@wolfpond.org> wrote: > > > configure: error: no, GNU cp needed. install or specify > > with --with-gnu-cp=/path/to/it > > As the guy who changed that (back when I was still at Oracle): No, this > didnt introduce a new dependency on GNU cp -- it always was there.
Well, all my builds of the last few month were run without it. > There was a variable GNUCOPY in the old build system which everyone > expected to be GNU cp. The funny thing is: the build system would still > fall back to any cp it will find in most cases. Thus you could end up > with some POSIX cp in the variable GNUCOPY leading to very interesting > effects AFAIK, there is (was?) some code to check for this and use correct arguments for straight cp. I agree the old build system was buggy: at one time I installed coreutils and tried to use its included cp, specifying the full path but the scripts still tried to use /bin/cp instead. > Once we get rid of the old build system we dont need to require GNU cp Neat. Is there a timeframe for that ? > P.S.: Also note that the old build system did not always require GNU > cp. For example on OSX it did not (and configure should not complain > there). I'm runnning DragonFly and the behavior has clearly changed. Should I remove/change the test in configure.in ? Kind Regards, -- Francois Tigeot _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
