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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: Mike Stump <mikestump at comcast dot net>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, Arnaud Charlet <charlet at adacore dot com>, Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 19:01:57 +0200
- Subject: Re: [ada, build] Ignore cp -p failures during Ada make install
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Mike Stump <mikestump@comcast.net> writes:
> On Apr 25, 2014, at 6:41 AM, Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> wrote:
>> When trying to install a freshly built gcc 4.9.0 on Solaris 9 and 10, I
>> ran into make install failures when using INSTALL_DATA_DATE:
>
> Ick, I hate this patch. You kill error checking for all, on something
> that is important, just because someone didn’t use a proper install
> script. The proper install script would use enough options to tell it
> to copy all but not the things it cannot… For example, if you actively
> strip acts from the source and then copy, it should not fail. If it
> does, then it sounds like a bug in cp.
Agreed that this is ugly: ACL support in GNU coreutils has long been a
total mess; no idea if it has improved very recently.
OTOH, error handling for INSTALL_DATA_DATE is already inconsistent: one
instance ignores errors, two others don't, with no apparent reason for
the difference.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University