From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,DNS_FROM_RFC_POST, SPF_NEUTRAL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF0FEBBAF for ; Wed, 20 May 2009 15:57:57 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArABAJOoE0pKfVwYimdsb2JhbACXJz8BAQEKCQwHDwWkUoETkQUBAwEDhAUF X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.41,221,1241388000"; d="scan'208";a="26508317" Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.92.24]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 20 May 2009 15:57:54 +0200 Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 8so295981qwh.33 for ; Wed, 20 May 2009 06:57:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=tsuCuM5Nz8RZ/tek5XhRSZM92DlO5rJnqbmyim/83mA=; b=bGnNSsZ6Z1YWWrx9LaqfrwFD/d17f9Xv20FO/wFWtUU62QhdN75zphVrp3Mr2IFC1R rZSQKB5VrpDW6aXIIMgs5xq8f2TohOA3wihAkMq59tLXOAnlFSrPFbJJko0p8q8lUd1E PjLyNv+XLTUBxaOgzOzgXCXKBjkk2/JoKvEjE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=x0q3QMxUqUvb8JNYabRgnlaRojg5mYMVGBXVRu5AQMqPHbWXHso7oz1l0U8u8EvPmZ Kop+TfoSMcaz4P6vfOutC3fF5g9DKGMKc5jBpiWR6JevnHLHr0OCSprlbLsdy5gibHVm k/I3Uni6TmaOMXtr5vc8djue5UM20cZ7hYFYk= Received: by 10.224.67.204 with SMTP id s12mr1255022qai.306.1242827873424; Wed, 20 May 2009 06:57:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.11? (adsl-69-154-216-28.dsl.stlsmo.swbell.net [69.154.216.28]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 9sm160874ywf.22.2009.05.20.06.57.49 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 20 May 2009 06:57:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A140C5B.1080701@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 08:57:47 -0500 From: Edgar Friendly User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090409) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wolfgang Lux Cc: Stefano Zacchiroli , Nathan Gray , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] building Batteries Included under OS X? References: <381CA424-7A25-43D2-8FFB-C346A987D0C6@polytechnique.org> <20090519130332.GA19242@usha.takhisis.invalid> <65a6e3960905190832x42715860r1d9f9d307474f1e7@mail.gmail.com> <9969643A-9383-4BA1-86B1-D1B9F71BFC25@uni-muenster.de> In-Reply-To: <9969643A-9383-4BA1-86B1-D1B9F71BFC25@uni-muenster.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam: no; 0.00; zacchiroli:01 zack:01 0200,:01 schmitt:01 edgar:98 nathan:98 2009:98 2009:98 git:98 wrote:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 posix:01 alan:02 wolfgang:02 Wolfgang Lux wrote: > Nathan Gray wrote: > >> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli >> wrote: >>> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 02:46:23PM +0200, Alan Schmitt wrote: >>>> By the way, is this a good place to report these kinds of bugs? >>> >>> Yes, the project tracker on the ocamlcore forge (which hosts the >>> project). You can find it at >>> http://forge.ocamlcore.org/tracker/?group_id=17 , it is linked from >>> the batteries project homepage. >>> >>> Patches would be appreciated ;-), especially because we not >>> necessarily know which alternative tools are available on Mac OS X to >>> do the equivalent of "cp -a". >> >> cp -R >> >> or cp -Rp if you need to preserve permissions and other such metadata. > > The FreeBSD man page for cp (available online at: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cp&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE&format=html) > says that -a is the same as -RpP. And this should indeed work for any > POSIX compatible system (not only Mac OS X). > > Wolfgang > Thank you for the follow-up. Fixed in git. Please let us know any other Linux-isms that have crept into our code. E