Re: Portability of `cp -p' (was: `cp' don't preserve timestamps by default on windows-xp)

> From: Reiner Steib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Zhang Wei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:44:18 +0200 > > I'm not aware of any cp implementation that doesn't support `-p' and I > didn't find anything wrt this in (info "(autoconf)Limitations of Usual > Tool

Portability of `cp -p' (was: `cp' don't preserve timestamps by default on windows-xp)

On Wed, Jul 11 2007, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> -CP = cp -f >> -CP_DIR = cp -rf >> +CP = cp -fp >> +CP_DIR = cp -rfp > > Thanks, but I don't want to rely on a GNU `cp' without checking. I'm not aware of any cp implementation that doesn't support `-p' and I d