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Re: [ada, build] Ignore cp -p failures during Ada make install
- From: Rainer Orth <ro at CeBiTec dot Uni-Bielefeld dot DE>
- To: Arnaud Charlet <charlet at adacore dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 20:17:19 +0200
- Subject: Re: [ada, build] Ignore cp -p failures during Ada make install
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Arnaud Charlet <charlet@adacore.com> writes:
>> It seems to me that (as already done in one of three cases in the
>> install-gnatlib target) $(INSTALL_DATA_DATE) errors should be ignored,
>> to allow for such a case.
>>
>> The following patch does just that and allowed the make install to
>> complete.
>>
>> Ok for mainline?
>
> No, it's not OK to ignore all such errors, and the permissions should
> really be preserved, so such error really musn't be ignored.
they are: this is a bug in (it seems) all recent version of coreutils
cp. How about a version with cp and touch -r as Mike suggested instead?
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University