Re: [PATCH] nt/gmake,defs, nt/nmake.defs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:06:16 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> But please do try to make your changes as isolated and unintrusive as
> possible, because our reluctance to make dangerous changes in the
> release branch.

Btw, one way to portably copy files at this stage is to use Emacs
itself, since the Emacs binary is already built at "make install"
time.  Emacs has a copy-file primitive that can preserve both time and
ownership information, like "cp -p" does.