Hi Olivier, Le lundi 25 janvier 2010 17:24, Olivier Mengué a écrit : > Hi, > > The configure of Quilt 0.48 fails on AIX with the following error: > > checking whether /usr/bin/cp -l works... configure: error: no > > You appear to have a `cp' that does not support hard links. > You can download GNU fileutils from ftp.gnu.org > > > However I discovered this in the quilt.changes: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Tue May 20 09:30:33 CEST 2008 - [email protected] > > - Stop using cp -l: it doesn't fall back to doing a regular copy > when hardlinks are not supported; on some types of filesystems > like AFS and in some situtions, this is annoying. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > So, does this check still applies?
I think you are correct and the check should be removed. Thanks for reporting, removing checks from the configure script is always welcome :) Here is the patch I plan to apply: * * * * * We no longer use "cp -l" in quilt, so there is no point in testing if it is supported at configuration time. Reported by Olivier Mengué. --- configure.ac | 12 ------------ 1 file changed, 12 deletions(-) --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -69,18 +69,6 @@ You can get this patch at ftp://ftp.gnu. fi QUILT_COMPAT_PROG_PATH(CP, cp, [gcp cp]) -AC_MSG_CHECKING(whether $CP -l works) -touch conftest.1 -if $CP -l conftest.1 conftest.2 2>/dev/null; then - AC_MSG_RESULT(yes) -else - AC_MSG_ERROR([no - -You appear to have a `cp' that does not support hard links. -You can download GNU fileutils from ftp.gnu.org -]) -fi - QUILT_COMPAT_PROG_PATH(DATE, date, [gdate date]) if test -z "$INTERNAL_DATE"; then -- Jean Delvare Suse L3 _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
