Makefile using cp -arf

Lillian Angel langel at redhat.com
Tue Feb 12 17:24:00 PST 2008


Michael Franz wrote:
> Is it possible to change the cp- pPRl too?  -l is not supported under 
> OS X.  If I understand the man page, this should be similar to ln

I would rather not change -l. This option saves a ton of space when 
copying openjdk to openjdk-ecj. The only files that are actually 
written, are those that differ between openjdk and openjdk-ecj. All the 
rest remained linked.

I am quite surprised OS X does not support this. Maybe just patch it 
out, it will have no side-effects other than loss of disk space.


Lillian



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