[Quilt-dev] Use of 'cp -l' in Quilt

[Olivier Mengué]

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:

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Tue May 20 09:30:33 CEST 2008 - address@hidden

- 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.

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So, does this check still applies?

Thanks for your help,

Olivier Mengué, Oxymel.