[Buildroot] cp command incompatibility
Bernhard Fischer
rep.dot.nop at gmail.com
Thu Mar 8 13:56:39 UTC 2007
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 07:15:29PM +0200, Heikki Lindholm wrote:
>Hi,
>
>there's some incompatilibity between GNU cp and Mac OS X (probably BSD,
>too) cp commands. GNU cp arguments -d and -a do not exist on OS X. -a
>can be written -pPR on OS X. -d is partly covered by -P and partly by
>-R. -P is the --no-dereference part of -d and -R does what
>--preserve=links does AFAICT.
There was a bug about cp -a not working on MacOS10 that (IIRC) suggested
to use cp -dpf instead.
>
>Doing a quick grep -r "cp " `find . -iname "*.mk"` reveals that there is
>quite a bit of work to fix all the incompatible cp occurences, so, I'm
>asking here what might be the best way to do it:
>(1) hand-edit all incompatible cp occurences to something that works on
>both systems ("POSIXify")
>(2) introduce some menuconfig options for common cp "use cases" and use
>shell variables to pass these configurable options to cp, for example,
>.mk scripts might have "cp $ARCHIVE foo bar", where $ARCHIVE would, for
>instance, be "-a" on Linux and "-pPR" on OS X.
>(3) give up and build a local copy of GNU fileutils, instead
4) ship, build and use a working install(1)
short of 4) and re 2). I'd introduce CP_A CP_F that'd do something like
cp -a (resp -dpf) and cp -pf. I do not think that $(ARCHIVE) et al are
what we want, fwiw.
Comments?
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