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diff --git a/doc/bugs/Problems_running_make_on_osx/comment_18_64fab50d95de619eb2e8f08f90237de1._comment b/doc/bugs/Problems_running_make_on_osx/comment_18_64fab50d95de619eb2e8f08f90237de1._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..df76bb301 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/Problems_running_make_on_osx/comment_18_64fab50d95de619eb2e8f08f90237de1._comment @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawkSq2FDpK2n66QRUxtqqdbyDuwgbQmUWus" + nickname="Jimmy" + subject="maybe killed another osx bug in the test." + date="2011-02-13T15:12:10Z" + content=""" +I think I have figured out why + + ### Failure in: 1:blackbox:3:git-annex unannex:1:with content + foo is not a symlink + +It goes back to the this piece of code (in test.hs) + + copyrepo :: FilePath -> FilePath -> IO FilePath + copyrepo old new = do + cleanup new + ensuretmpdir + Utility.boolSystem \"cp\" [\"-pr\", old, new] @? \"cp -pr failed\" + +It seems that on OSX it does not preserve the symbolic link information, basically cp is not gnu cp on OSX, doing a \"cp -a SOURCE DEST\" seem's to the right thing on OSX. I tried it out on my archlinux workstation by replacing *-pr* with just *-a* and all the tests passed on archlinux. + +I'm not sure what the implications would be with changing the test with changing the cp command. + +"""]] |