Bug #24777 for C-Scan-Constants: 'cp' command on MacOS X (and other platforms) does not recognize '-a' option

Sat Feb 03 16:08:17 2007 jleffler [...] earthlink.net - Ticket created

Subject:	'cp' command on MacOS X (and other platforms) does not recognize '-a' option
Date:	Sat, 03 Feb 2007 13:07:58 -0800
To:	bug-C-Scan-Constants [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Jonathan Leffler <jleffler [...] earthlink.net>

Had to manually download C::Scan::Constants - probably not your problem. Don't have ModPerl::CScan installed, so Makefile.PL tried the 'cp -a' command, which fails (unrecognized option) on MacOS X 10.4.8. I have never come across the option before -- it might be intended as 'all', which would be achieved by 'cp -r' or 'cp -R'. -- Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@earthlink.net) #include <disclaimer.h> Guardian of DBD::Informix v2005.02 -- http://dbi.perl.org/

Mon Sep 24 14:03:33 2007 philip.monsen [...] gmail.com - Taken

Mon Sep 24 14:06:31 2007 philip.monsen [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added

The -a means "archive" on my Red Hat Enterprise Linux v3u8 system. Using it was obviously inherently unportable. Instead I switched over to using File::Copy::copy() in v1.012. Built and tested cleanly on x86_64 using 5.8.7 and 5.8.8, and I expect should provide more joy on Mac OS X also. Recommend updating to v1.013 as that version contains an additional minor fix to a test that was still failing on one of my systems.

Mon Sep 24 14:06:34 2007 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Mon Sep 24 14:06:35 2007 philip.monsen [...] gmail.com - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'

Mon Sep 24 14:18:43 2007 philip.monsen [...] gmail.com - Severity Critical added

Mon Sep 24 14:18:43 2007 philip.monsen [...] gmail.com - Broken in 1.011 added

Tue Sep 25 23:27:09 2007 philip.monsen [...] gmail.com - Fixed in 1.012 added

Tue Sep 25 23:27:09 2007 philip.monsen [...] gmail.com - Fixed in 1.013 added

Tue Sep 25 23:27:10 2007 philip.monsen [...] gmail.com - Fixed in 1.014 added

Wed Sep 26 08:09:42 2007 philip.monsen [...] gmail.com - Fixed in 1.015 added

Wed Sep 26 08:14:12 2007 philip.monsen [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added

I don't plan to post any further comments to this bug, but I did want to mention that v1.015 is now available on CPAN. Besides correcting the 'cp -a' issue, this version also resolves a number of other bugs that have been negatively impacting perl-testers reports. I have scheduled v1.011-1.014 files for deletion on CPAN.

Wed Sep 26 08:14:51 2007 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'resolved' to 'open'

Wed Sep 26 08:18:22 2007 philip.monsen [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added

Re-marking as resolved, as the last comment was merely advisory vs. reporting continued existence of the issue.

Wed Sep 26 08:18:37 2007 philip.monsen [...] gmail.com - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'