darcs patch: fixes for creating binary distribution
Ian Lynagh
igloo at earth.li
Thu Aug 30 21:58:30 EDT 2007
Hi,
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 12:54:02PM -0700, Judah Jacobson wrote:
> I attempted to create a binary distribution on Mac OS X, and found
> that the following two patches were necessary to get everything
> working correctly.
Thanks for the patches!
> Use cp -R instead of cp -a (it's more portable).
Hmm, -a is equivalent to -dpR here. -d doesn't look important for us,
but -p (same as --preserve=mode,ownership,timestamps) probably is
important when we copy the directory of stamp files. Do you also have a
-p flag with the same meaning on OS X?
Thanks
Ian
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