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Re: coreutils 6.9 "cp -p" fails on leopard (erroneous error message)
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: coreutils 6.9 "cp -p" fails on leopard (erroneous error message) |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:49:39 +0100 |
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