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Re: Autoconf 2.52g is released


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: Autoconf 2.52g is released
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 09:12:50 -0500
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On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 10:35:11AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
 
> I think AC_CONFIG_LINKS should try `cp' as the final fallback, if both
> `ln -s' and `ln' fail.  Perhaps try `cp -p' before a plain `cp'.

"cp -p" has some unfortunate side-effects (some versions copy the ownership
of the original file in addition to the protection)

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