From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernhard Fischer Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 20:42:49 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] cp -dpR fails on BSD systems -- advice on resolving? In-Reply-To: <468FDBF5.6060807@cs.helsinki.fi> References: <37c712e0707071110x127595c1nb77f020c16a98a40@mail.gmail.com> <468FDBF5.6060807@cs.helsinki.fi> Message-ID: <20070707184248.GX4096@aon.at> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 09:31:17PM +0300, Heikki Lindholm wrote: >Allan Clark kirjoitti: >> Hi everyone; >> >> I ran into a problem when I moved from uclibc-snapshot to >> uclibc-0.9.28 or 0.9.29: the "cp" command is a non-Unix option: "cp >> -a" or "cp -dpR", or "cp --no-dereference" >> >> I assume it's on Linux, and works, so those of us doing something >> funky (like BSD or MacOSX) invite a few problems. >> >> I'm wondering if the fix should be: >> 1) submit compatible patches to the group, using an older >> syntax/options for all hosts, or >> 2) detect, and download/build/use a replacement (same way I did for >> gmake, as was done for sed) > >OT: Any particular reason you're using a Chinese charset? Anyway, issues >of cp have been discussed before on this list. And there are bug reports >about it in the tracker. I suppose nothing conclusive was ever reached. >In the case of uClibc, one could imagine replacing the cp with the tar >trick that's used in the SVN trunk, but the problem, as you surely know >by now, has much wider manifestation over buildroot, and should be dealt >with some uniform, generally agreed upon, way everywhere. This is http://bugs.uclibc.org/view.php?id=944 Please followup there (would be nice if we could fix this once and for all).