Re: [Boost-build] bjam's FileClone (from boost-1.33.1)

From: mike o (mike.otj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-13 14:52:18

An override of "CLONE" on the bjam call seemed to do the trick:

'-sCLONE=cp -fd'

The default is CLONE=cp -pfd

Mike

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:26 PM, mike o <mike.otj_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I am running into a FileClone failure when building boost-1.33.1 on RHEL AS
> 5.0 32-bit.  FileClone works fine when I build *on* the machine, but I am
> running into problems when building on a network filesystem.  Here is an
> excerpt of the bjam output w/ -d2:
>
>
>     ranlib
> "/mydir/.obj/boost/boost_1_33_1-build/Linux/GLIBC_2.5/32/gcc-4.1.2/bin/boost/libs/wave/build/libboost_wave.a/gcc/release/runtime-link-static/libboost_wave-gcc-s-1_33_1.a"
>
>
> FileClone
> /mydir/boost/boost-1.33.1/Linux/GLIBC_2.5/32/gcc-4.1.2/lib/libboost_wave-gcc-s-1_33_1.a
>
>     cp -fpd
> "/mydir/.obj/boost/boost_1_33_1-build/Linux/GLIBC_2.5/32/gcc-4.1.2/bin/boost/libs/wave/build/libboost_wave.a/gcc/release/runtime-link-static/libboost_wave-gcc-s-1_33_1.a"
> "/mydir/boost/boost-1.33.1/Linux/GLIBC_2.5/32/gcc-4.1.2/lib/libboost_wave-gcc-s-1_33_1.a"
>
> cp: preserving permissions for
> `/mydir/boost/boost-1.33.1/Linux/GLIBC_2.5/32/gcc-4.1.2/lib/libboost_wave-gcc-s-1_33_1.a':
> Operation not supported
> cp: preserving ACL for
> `/mydir/boost/boost-1.33.1/Linux/GLIBC_2.5/32/gcc-4.1.2/lib/libboost_wave-gcc-s-1_33_1.a':
> Operation not supported
> ...failed FileClone
> /mydir/boost/boost-1.33.1/Linux/GLIBC_2.5/32/gcc-4.1.2/lib/libboost_wave-gcc-s-1_33_1.a...
> ...removing
> /mydir/boost/boost-1.33.1/Linux/GLIBC_2.5/32/gcc-4.1.2/lib/libboost_wave-gcc-s-1_33_1.a
>
>
>
> Is the FileClone failing simply because permissions/ACL cannot be
> preserved?  Even though the file is actually copied to the right place?
>
> Is there a way to work around this?...maybe by disabling the "remove" step
> from FileClone, or any other way?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
>
>
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