Re: Autoconf 2.52g is released

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Thomas Dickey wrote:

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

Why is that bad?  Those files are typically header files that the 
compiler needs to compile the program.  If we can live with the original 
ownership when building from the source tree, why can't we live with the 
same ownership if we build from another directory?  What am I missing?