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

[Brian Biswas]

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).

???

--Brian