Re: [Quilt-dev] [patch 5/8]

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Tuesday 13 September 2005 23:25, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> Mac OS X 10.4 (I'm running 10.4.2) ships with a cp command that does
> not understand the `-l' option.  Darwin ports has a coreutils port with
> GNU cp, but installs it as gcp so as not to overshadow Apple's cp
> command.

I guess backup-files can be used instead of cp -l. It tries to hardlink and 
falls back to copying if that fails, so it should also work in non-UNIX 
environments. (Copying is needed on UNIX when crossing filesystem 
boundaries.)

> Similarly OS X's date command doesn't understand --rfc-822 among other
> options used by quilt, and coreutils installs gdate.

POSIX date unfortunately is too weak to be useful.

> Okay, so I relent, quilt needs coreutils.  This patch searches for and uses
> gcp in preference to cp, and gdate in preference to date to workaround
> these problems, provided there is an installed GNU cp called gcp etc.

Could you please rediff against CVS HEAD? Thanks!

-- Andreas.