Re: coreutils 6.9 "cp -p" fails on leopard (erroneous error message)

[Jim Meyering]

Brian Biswas <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm running coreutils 6.9 on leopard 10.5.1.
>
>       % cp file1 file2
>
> works correctly. However:
>
>       % cp -p file1 file2
>       cp: 'file1' no such file or directory
>
> What's really strange is that the cp ***does*** correctly occur
> (with permissions being preserved). Why the error message?
>
> If I compile the same code on tiger and run it on leopard I don't
> get that error message (and the copy is done correctly).

Thanks for the report.
Would you please see if you can reproduce that with
the latest test release?

    ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.92.tar.gz
    ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.92.tar.lzma

If so, please try again, but this time start by running

    ./configure --disable-acl