Warren L Dodge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have built coreutils-6.12 on a GNU/Linux RedHat3 system. When I use
> the "cp" command with the --preserve=mode,timestamps switch there is a
> problem where a copy to a nfs mounted file system does not set the
> timesamp properly.
>
> I show examples be
Warren L Dodge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have built coreutils-6.12 on a GNU/Linux RedHat3 system. When I use
> the "cp" command with the --preserve=mode,timestamps switch there is a
> problem where a copy to a nfs mounted file system does not set the
> timesamp properly.
That looks like tha
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Warren L Dodge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I have built coreutils-6.12 on a GNU/Linux RedHat3 system. When I use
>> the "cp" command with the --preserve=mode,timestamps switch there is a
>> problem where a copy to a nfs mounted file system does not set th
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> > ... if SIGPIPE is blocked or ignored.
>> >
>> >> which is not generally recommended.
>>
>> In some contexts. Some environments (mis-configured login/csh) have
>> resulted in the default SIGPIPE handler being SIG_IGN.
>
> I agree t
Jim Meyering wrote:
> > You can distinguish close_stream and close_stdout. close_stream is library
> > code,
> > close_stdout is not. What about a 'bool ignore_epipe' that influences the
> > behaviour of close_stdout? Whereas the library code that called close_stream
> > has to check against EOF/E
% touch foo foo
% cp -u foo foo && echo yes
cp: `foo' and `foo' are the same file
I expected that since -u says
-u, --update
copy only when the SOURCE file is newer than the
destination file or when the destination file is missing
it would not attempt to copy
A few tools are required to build coreutils from a git checkout, but
not checked in a friendly way. This patch adds checks to bootstrap
and configure.
Oh, and updates automake to 1.10.1, which appears to work.
diff --git a/bootstrap b/bootstrap
index 438a145..0232ae9 100755
--- a/bootstrap
++
>From 1ff16a1235ed546f04b219966a9142a2334a7b4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 08:24:04 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] bootstrap: check for AC_PROG_LIBTOOL as well as AM_PROG_LIBTOOL
* build-aux/bootstrap: Check for AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, as well as the
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