Installation of man page via cp --preserve fails on NFS

[jzinn]

I did this

Building curl on NFS gives this error message:

cp: preserving permissions for `/path/to/docs/curl.1': Operation not supported
cp: preserving ACL for `/path/to/docs/curl.1': Operation not supported

The failing cp command comes from docs/Makefile.am:

$(abs_builddir)/curl.1:
	if test "$(top_builddir)x" != "$(top_srcdir)x" -a -e "$(srcdir)/curl.1"; then \
		cp -fp "$(srcdir)/curl.1" $@; fi
	cd cmdline-opts && $(MAKE)

Perhaps using install with specified permissions instead of cp --preserve would be better.

I expected the following

The install command (cp) to succeed with error code 0.

curl/libcurl version

From my machine, not the build machine:

curl 7.63.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.63.0 OpenSSL/1.0.2q zlib/1.2.3 c-ares/1.12.0
Release-Date: 2018-12-12
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps pop3 pop3s rtsp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp 
Features: AsynchDNS IPv6 Largefile NTLM SSL libz UnixSockets HTTPS-proxy 

operating system

The build machine is CentOS 5 or 6.

[jzinn]

This test patch to docs/Makefile.in worked for me.

diff --git a/curl-7.63.0/docs/Makefile.in b/curl-7.63.0/docs/Makefile.in
index 5abb20ac3..e7153493d 100644
--- a/curl-7.63.0/docs/Makefile.in
+++ b/curl-7.63.0/docs/Makefile.in
@@ -886,7 +886,7 @@ uninstall-man: uninstall-man1
 # have changed.
 $(abs_builddir)/curl.1:
        if test "$(top_builddir)x" != "$(top_srcdir)x" -a -e "$(srcdir)/curl.1"; then \
-               cp -fp "$(srcdir)/curl.1" $@; fi
+               $(INSTALL_DATA) "$(srcdir)/curl.1" $@; fi
        cd cmdline-opts && $(MAKE)

I'm not sure if it's copacetic to use $(INSTALL_DATA) in docs/Makefile.am (I don't know Autotools well enough), but it does work. I tried updating docs/Makefile.am to use $(INSTALL_DATA) instead of cp -fp. Then automake generated the correct docs/Makefile.in that I expected.