Re: [Devil-linux-develop] functions

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

I guess Bruce took a better look then I did. ;-)

Heiko

Bruce Smith wrote:

>>I need to copy some files (kernel modules) on the install stage of the
>>alsa-driver script to $CDDIR/lib/modules/2.4.22.
>>
>>What is the difference between these two lines and which one should i use?
>>
>>cp -dpR $WORKDIR/tmp/* $CDDIR || exit 1
>>
>>copy_files $WORKDIR/tmp/lib/modules/ $CDDIR/ || exit 1
>>    
>>
>
>There is no difference between the two (in this case)
>except for the "-f" cp option.
>
>copy_files is a function defined in build/script/functions
>
>copy_files()
>{
>        for FILE in $1
>        do
>                cp -dpfR $FILE $2
>        done
>}
>
>  
>
>>another one:
>>
>>copy_files $WORKDIR/tmp/usr $CDDIR/ || exit 1 
>>
>>is the same as
>>
>>copy_files $WORKDIR/tmp/usr $CDDIR/usr || exit 1 
>>    
>>
>
>The first one is right, the second one will not do what you want.
>
>The second one would copy files under $CDDIR/usr/usr/files.
>(double /usr which is wrong)
>
>
>copy_files $WORKDIR/tmp/usr/* $CDDIR/usr 
>
>would work correctly (except for hidden files/directories)
>Confused yet?  :-)
>
> - BS
>
>
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