On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 09:06 +0100, Hans Beckérus wrote: > I am having some trouble with these patches :( The new approach is > using the '-n' flag to the 'cp' command. > That is not supported on our SuSE11 based system. To be honest, I do > not know how portable '-n' is? > Some system have it, others seems to provide '-u' instead. I guess by > removing '-n' part of the performance gain is lost? > Would it be possible to test for error from the 'cp' command and if it > fails try '-u' instead (and cache the result)? Or maybe > even better, make this configurable in local.conf (or the distro) for > the build platforms that does not support '-n' but can > instead fall-back to using '-u'. From what I can tell most systems > support one or the other, but never both.
Hmm, its been in coreutils since 2009 which I guess isn't that long in the scheme of things: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/src/cp.c?id=d01338eb3d30e5634f1b4d4179c229f54eea0b44 Just to double check, is cp on your system provided by coreutils or something else? Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
