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Re: Autoconf 2.52g is released
From: |
Thomas Dickey |
Subject: |
Re: Autoconf 2.52g is released |
Date: |
Sun, 27 Jan 2002 09:26:31 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.2.5i |
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 04:14:58PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > "cp -p" has some unfortunate side-effects (some versions copy the ownership
> > of the original file in addition to the protection)
>
> Why is that bad? Those files are typically header files that the
> compiler needs to compile the program. If we can live with the original
> ownership when building from the source tree, why can't we live with the
> same ownership if we build from another directory? What am I missing?
I had in mind that someone's likely to try to use the same script for
installing files that use symbolic links.
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- Autoconf 2.52g is released, Akim Demaille, 2002/01/25
- Autoconf 2.52g is released, John Poltorak, 2002/01/25
- Re: Autoconf 2.52g is released, Bil Kleb, 2002/01/25
- Re: Autoconf 2.52g is released, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/01/27
- Re: Autoconf 2.52g is released, Akim Demaille, 2002/01/27
- Re: Autoconf 2.52g is released, Thomas Dickey, 2002/01/27
- Re: Autoconf 2.52g is released, Bob Proulx, 2002/01/27
- Re: Autoconf 2.52g is released, Russ Allbery, 2002/01/27
- Re: Autoconf 2.52g is released, Thomas E. Dickey, 2002/01/27
- Re: Autoconf 2.52g is released, Bob Proulx, 2002/01/27
- Re: Autoconf 2.52g is released, Thomas Dickey, 2002/01/27