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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Bill Meier <wmeier@newsguy.com>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nt/gmake,defs, nt/nmake.defs
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:01:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uprvxo4pq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47926AA7.3070804@newsguy.com> (message from Bill Meier on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:24:55 -0500)

> Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:24:55 -0500
> From: Bill Meier <wmeier@newsguy.com>
> CC: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
> 
> I'm inclined to do the fix as follows (comments welcome):
> 
> 1. In lisp/makefile.w32-in:
> For the install target: change 'cp -f' to '($CP)'
> 
> 2. In configure.bat, gmake.defs and nmake.defs:
> Add appropiate code so as to test for the availability of 'cp -p'  and 
> to define CP (and CP_DIR) to include (or not) the '-p' option.

As I wrote earlier, I'd prefer that you use Emacs's copy-file
primitive to copy files.  That would certainly work on all supported
platforms, without requiring a cp that supports the -p option.  I
suspect that testing for the support of -p in a way that works on all
Windows shells would be a hard job anyway.




  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-19 22:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-15 22:18 [PATCH] nt/gmake,defs, nt/nmake.defs Bill Meier
2008-01-16 19:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-18 16:14   ` Bill Meier
2008-01-18 17:06     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-18 21:16       ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-18 21:41       ` Jason Rumney
2008-01-19  8:52         ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-19 10:53           ` Jason Rumney
2008-01-19 21:24             ` Bill Meier
2008-01-19 22:01               ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-01-20 17:35 Bill Meier
2008-01-20 17:55 ` Bill Meier

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