Re: make modules_install fails with latest fileutils

[Keith Owens]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 19:38:20 +0100, 
"Marcel J.E. Mol" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Just had some problems doing a modules_install with
>fileutils-1.1.1-1 (redhat rawhide). The cp command
>in there gives a non-zero return value when it is asked
>to copy the same file in the argument list:
>
>--- Rules.make.org	Tue Nov 20 19:36:16 2001
>+++ Rules.make	Mon Nov 19 23:48:03 2001
>@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@
> _modinst__: dummy
> ifneq "$(strip $(ALL_MOBJS))" ""
> 	mkdir -p $(MODLIB)/kernel/$(MOD_DESTDIR)
>-	cp -f $(ALL_MOBJS) $(MODLIB)/kernel/$(MOD_DESTDIR)$(MOD_TARGET)
>+	-cp -f $(ALL_MOBJS) $(MODLIB)/kernel/$(MOD_DESTDIR)$(MOD_TARGET)
> endif

(1) Complain to the fileutils maintainer for introducing incompatible
    behaviour.
(2) The correct workaround is
     cp -f $(sort $(ALL_MOBJS)) $(MODLIB)/kernel/$(MOD_DESTDIR)$(MOD_TARGET)