Re: coreutils 6.9 "cp -p" fails on leopard (erroneous error message)

[Brian Biswas]

Hi, Jim.

        coreutils-6.9.92 configured normally  has the same problem.

	After configuring with --disable-acl, though, it works (no error  
message with cp -p)!

	We (UNC-Chapel Hill) run coreutils (actually, all of our shared  
applications software) over AFS so
        disabling acl's is probably not something we should do, though. ???

--Brian


On Jan 17, 2008, at 3:49 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:

> Brian Biswas <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I'm running coreutils 6.9 on leopard 10.5.1.
> >
> >         % cp file1 file2
> >
> > works correctly. However:
> >
> >         % cp -p file1 file2
> >         cp: 'file1' no such file or directory
> >
> > What's really strange is that the cp ***does*** correctly occur
> > (with permissions being preserved). Why the error message?
> >
> > If I compile the same code on tiger and run it on leopard I don't
> > get that error message (and the copy is done correctly).
>
> Thanks for the report.
> Would you please see if you can reproduce that with
> the latest test release?
>
>     ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.92.tar.gz
>     ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.92.tar.lzma
>
> If so, please try again, but this time start by running
>
>     ./configure --disable-acl