[Bf-committers] CVS commit: blender/release Makefile

[John K. Walton]

On Thu, 15 May 2003, instinctive new media wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 14 May 2003, John K. Walton wrote:
> 
> > 'cp -a' is IRIX too not just GNU, but not solaris 8.
> > how about tar instead, and not GNU tar either.
> 
> But it seems to have a completely different purpose on IRIX:
> 
> " The -a option to cp will copy user mode XFS attributes, the option 
> is silently ignored if any of the files involved is not on an XFS
>  filesystem."

this is only the XFS exceptions. else it should be the same as
cp -Rp 
 
> cp -a on linux copies a directory tree recursively, while on IRIX,
> it does something that is XFS specific... so on IRIX, cp -a will not
> do the same as on linux, so we should avoid it...

did you try it? it works for me.

> | alexander ewering           instinctive new media
> | ae@instinctive.de       http://www.instinctive.de 
> |
> | fon: +49-2393-220558         fax: +49-2393-220559
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Bf-committers mailing list
> Bf-committers@blender.org
> http://www.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
>