[haiku-development] Re: Looking for feedback on enhancements for dealing with Mac keyboards with Haiku

  • From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:54:21 +0200

On 2011-09-14 at 07:18:33 [+0200], John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
> Unfortunately, in order to build the image I had to change line 124 of
> build/scripts/build_haiku_image from
> 
> cp="$fsShellCommand cp -f"
> 
> to
> 
> cp="$fsShellCommand cp -rf"
> 
> in order to get the image to build with a subdirectory in data/system/data.
> I don't know what the full impact of this change is though. It works for me
> but perhaps this isn't a good change.

It isn't. The rules that need to copy recursively add the "-r" themselves. 
That it works for you only when you force the "-r" here probably means that 
something is used incorrectly. What exactly are you trying to do and what 
error do you get?

CU, Ingo

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