Re: [AUCTeX-devel] make xemacs-package

[David Kastrup]

Reiner Steib <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, Jan 20 2006, David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:
>>> On *BSD, one can't build the package, without hand-editing the
>>> Makefile or similar workaround, since it uses "cp -a" to prepare the
>>> target directory.
>>
>> [...] The xemacs-package target is for maintainers only.  It
>> requires using the maintainer-only tar-ball target before, and
>> tar-ball checks out a fresh copy from CVS before building.
>>
>> Since this stuff is undocumented and maintainer-only, it is not a
>> problem per se that it only run's on the maintainers' operating
>> systems.
>
> It wouldn't hurt, if we'd use "cp -pr" instead, AFAICS.

Sure, I was just explaining why I thought "broken" a bit harsh as a
verdict.

On the other hand, the time explaining this would be better spent
changing it, anyway.  Does cp -pr on BSD as well as System 5 do
everything cp -a does here, more or less?  We need not worry about
symbolic links, I guess.

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