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

[John K. Walton]

On Wed, 14 May 2003, John K. Walton wrote:

> 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.

okok, i did stupid thing. i had freeware in path before 
other stuff (to make blender work), so i was using GNU cp
anyway. sorry!
 
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