Re: make it possible to avoid symlinks in coreutils' bootstrap

[Paul Eggert]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:

> A failure case with `cp -p':
>   cd gnulib && cvs up
>   cd .../coreutils && make && ./bootstrap && make

I don't understand this failure case.  "cvs up" modifies the
time stamps to the current date, and "cp -p" will copy
the modified time stamps, so it's behaving like symlinks
would.