Re: [bug-gnulib] make it possible to avoid symlinks in coreutils' bootstrap

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> That being said, if there are strong feelings that "cp -p" is bad, I
> can change it to use "cp".  After all, I won't be using the --copy
> option anyway, so it doesn't matter much to me what --copy does.
> Perhaps Bruno has an opinion?

I always use "make distclean" before (or at least after) invoking the
bootstrap script. So it makes no difference for me whether "cp" or "cp -p".

Bruno