Hi Gary, * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 12:08:35PM CEST: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > This has been so long ago it's a shame: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2005-12/msg00075.html > > So long that I'd completely forgotten about it!!
I have a mail folder with issues going back a few years (basically since I subscribed to libtool lists). > > * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:39:55PM CET: > >> I'm not sure `cp -p' is portable enough. We've used `tar' previously > >> because of this (among other things). > > > > I've changed the patch to use tar. Although I really really doubt there > > to be any real advantage here of tar over cp -p. If there were such an > > issue, it should definitly be mentioned in the Autoconf portability > > section. > > I don't remember what the issues were that we encountered :-( But, > we did have good reason for moving from cp -p to tar back in the day. > I don't mind trying to revert to cp -p after the release if the > archives don't hold a good reason not to. I might check eventually... > > I've applied the patch as shown below. > > Thanks for remembering! Once I've got my dev environment set up again, > I have a couple of patches in quilt that need resynching with HEAD, and > that need consideration before 2.0. I may have obsoleted some of your patches, maybe even by redoing them in a less elegant way. Oh well. Expect more patches soon. Cheers, Ralf
