I see -a is the same as -dpR, and clearly -R is not needed as only one
file is copied.

What does the -d do? I don't understand the man file (not unusual,
linux man documentation is incomprehensible).

I would need to know what that does and whether it is needed before I
could give this patch a positive review.

Bill.

On 6 July, 08:29, "Dr. David Kirkby" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Bill Hart wrote:
> > I've just released FLINT 1.4. Get it athttp://www.flintlib.org/
>
> Note, if flint is updated, my fix for Solaris still needs a review at
>
> http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/6451
>
> which fixes a GNUism in spkg-install, and is not a fault of flint.
>
> Perhaps someone could review that. It should not take too much time, as
> it is only a change of one byte, from the '-a' to the '-p' option of the
> 'cp' command.
>
> Only one file is copied, so there is no need for the copy to be recursive.
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