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From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>
To: "Bryce McKinlay" <bmckinlay@gmail.com>
Cc: <java@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: libjava build failure with read-only source tree
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:48:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E845AED020000780005870B@nat28.tlf.novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALUNu-rTAeDOy+v+FcTMgvzdCDGvhP3Wg2_vF6KA3cEYwYsVog@mail.gmail.com>

>>> On 29.09.11 at 11:31, Bryce McKinlay <bmckinlay@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:
> 
>> --- a/libjava/classpath/tools/Makefile.am
>> +++ b/libjava/classpath/tools/Makefile.am
>> @@ -371,6 +371,7 @@ endif
>>  ## BEGIN GCJ LOCAL
>>        cp -pR $(srcdir)/asm .
>>        cp -pR $(srcdir)/classes .
>> +       find asm classes -type d -exec chmod u+w \{\} \;
>>        if [ -d asm/.svn ]; then \
>>          find asm classes -depth -type d -name .svn -exec rm -rf \{\} \;; \
>>        fi
> 
> This patch looks fine to me, though I wonder if there is any good
> reason why "cp -p" was used in the first place?

Perhaps to retain the timestamps of the files without becoming too
system specific (i.e. dependent on cp's support of
--preserve=timestamps)?

> In any case, I'd say you can go ahead and check this in under the
> "obvious" rule.

Yeah, probably.

Thanks, Jan

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-29  9:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-29  8:18 Jan Beulich
2011-09-29  8:40 ` Bryce McKinlay
2011-09-29  9:06   ` Jan Beulich
2011-09-29  9:32 ` Bryce McKinlay
2011-09-29  9:34   ` Andrew Haley
2011-09-29  9:48   ` Jan Beulich [this message]

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