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From: Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
To: Arnaud Charlet <charlet@adacore.com>
Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org,  Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [ada, build] Ignore cp -p failures during Ada make install
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 18:20:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yddr44l46kw.fsf@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140425173618.GA23613@adacore.com> (Arnaud Charlet's message of	"Fri, 25 Apr 2014 19:36:18 +0200")

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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  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-25 18:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-25 13:45 Rainer Orth
2014-04-25 17:02 ` Mike Stump
2014-04-25 17:04   ` Rainer Orth
2014-04-25 17:13     ` Mike Stump
2014-04-25 17:20       ` Rainer Orth
2014-04-25 17:34         ` Mike Stump
2014-04-25 17:49 ` Arnaud Charlet
2014-04-25 18:20   ` Rainer Orth [this message]
2014-04-25 19:05   ` Rainer Orth

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