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=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15E95BBAF for ; Wed, 20 May 2009 11:26:02 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AsoCABBpE0qAsMCNmWdsb2JhbACXXwEBAQEBCAsKBxG2SoQDBQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.41,220,1241388000"; d="scan'208";a="29643247" Received: from secmail.uni-muenster.de ([128.176.192.141]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 20 May 2009 11:26:01 +0200 Received: from [145.254.102.145] (dialin-145-254-102-145.pools.arcor-ip.net [145.254.102.145]) by SECMAIL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DB20BF404; Wed, 20 May 2009 11:25:58 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <65a6e3960905190832x42715860r1d9f9d307474f1e7@mail.gmail.com> References: <381CA424-7A25-43D2-8FFB-C346A987D0C6@polytechnique.org> <20090519130332.GA19242@usha.takhisis.invalid> <65a6e3960905190832x42715860r1d9f9d307474f1e7@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <9969643A-9383-4BA1-86B1-D1B9F71BFC25@uni-muenster.de> Cc: caml-list@inria.fr, Nathan Gray Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Wolfgang Lux Subject: Re: [Caml-list] building Batteries Included under OS X? Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 11:25:58 +0200 To: Stefano Zacchiroli X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753.1) X-Spam: no; 0.00; wlux:01 uni-muenster:01 zacchiroli:01 zack:01 0200,:01 schmitt:01 nathan:98 2009:98 2009:98 wrote:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 posix:01 alan:02 wolfgang:02 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