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Re: make it possible to avoid symlinks in coreutils' bootstrap


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: make it possible to avoid symlinks in coreutils' bootstrap
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:52:27 -0700
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Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:

> A failure case with `cp -p':
>   cd gnulib && cvs up
>   cd .../coreutils && make && ./bootstrap && make

I don't understand this failure case.  "cvs up" modifies the
time stamps to the current date, and "cp -p" will copy
the modified time stamps, so it's behaving like symlinks
would.




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