Hey Bjoern, On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 01:05:07AM +0100, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: > On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 06:09:10 +0100 > Francois Tigeot <ftig...@wolfpond.org> wrote: > > > Well, all my builds of the last few month were run without it. > > That is luck and you dont want to count on that. Anyone using a > variable GNUCOPY in the old build system has every right to expect it > to contain a GNU cp.
It was not luck, there was some conditional code to use either GNU or straight cp. It may have been a hack though. > > Neat. Is there a timeframe for that ? > As soon as you have migrated all modules to the new system. ;D Okay. Maybe sometime in 2021 then :p > > I'm runnning DragonFly and the behavior has clearly changed. Should I > > remove/change the test in configure.in ? > > You could set GNUCOPY to empty (on BSD as on OSX) if there isnt one > available. Likely you will get breakers now on BSD from that and issues > might pop up again now and then as long as the old build system is around I have bigger build issues to tackle for now. Since the new code has fixed the gnu cp location issue, I have simply added a --with-gnu-cp knob in my autoconf.sh line. > Honestly, I think the time spend on working around the awkwardness of > the old build system is better spend on migrating to the new build > system though. I completely agree. -- Francois Tigeot _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
