GNU cp truly "not found" on Mac OS X?

Hello,

I recently made rsnapshot 1.2.9 from source on laptop running Mac OS X 10.4.6 (PowerPC). On this laptop, I have also installed the GNU coreutils version 5.92 via Darwin Ports and the GNU cp command is most definitely in my PATH as is reflected by this statement on the command line:

> $ which gcp
> /opt/local/bin/gcp

Running configure, the configure script is still picking up on Apple's modified BSD cp (located in /bin) as is reflected in the output from 
./configure ...

> $ ./configure
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /opt/local/bin/ginstall -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking for gawk... gawk
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /opt/local/bin/ginstall -c
> checking for perl... /opt/local/bin/perl
> checking for rsync... /usr/bin/rsync
> checking for cp... /bin/cp
> checking for rm... /bin/rm
> checking for ssh... /opt/local/bin/ssh
> checking for logger... /usr/bin/logger
> checking for du... /usr/bin/du
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating Makefile
> config.status: creating rsnapshot
> config.status: creating rsnapshot-diff
> config.status: creating rsnapshot.conf.default
> config.status: creating t/support/etc/configtest.conf
> config.status: creating t/support/etc/rsync.conf
> config.status: creating t/support/etc/gnu_cp.conf
> config.status: creating t/support/etc/relative_delete_bugfix.conf
> config.status: creating t/configtest.t
> config.status: creating t/rsync.t
> config.status: creating t/gnu_cp.t
> config.status: creating t/relative_delete_bugfix.t
>
> Now type  "make test"    to run the regression test suite.
> Then type "make install" to install the program.
>
> After rsnapshot is installed, don't forget to copy
> /usr/local/etc/rsnapshot.conf.default to /usr/local/etc/rsnapshot.conf

When I run the recursion test (make test), the complaint is reflected asserting "GNU cp not found" as in ...

> $ make test
> /opt/local/bin/perl -MTest::Harness -e 'runtests(glob "t/*.t")';
> t/configtest................Can't open perl script "../rsnapshot": No such file or directory
> t/configtest................ok                                               
> t/gnu_cp....................cp: illegal option -- -
> usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-pv] src target
>        cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-pv] src1 ... srcN directory
> t/gnu_cp....................ok                                               
>         1/1 skipped: GNU cp not found
> t/relative_delete_bugfix....ok                                               
> t/rsync.....................ok                                               
> All tests successful, 1 subtest skipped.
> Files=4, Tests=5,  2 wallclock secs ( 0.58 cusr +  0.36 csys =  0.94 CPU)

This concerns me. I am confused if I should, on a Mac OS X system, really use Apple's modified version of BSD /bin/cp (as well as Apple's instances of du, rm, rsync) or if I should substitute them (by modifying the rsnapshot configure and make scripts) to explicitly find and use the GNU installed versions of these command-line tools? I would like rsnapshot to be capable of dealing with resources on the Apple HFS+ file system which means there is no joy in the world trying to figure out the idiosyncrasies of such (
e.g., extended attributes, BSD flags, ACLs, etc. -- Apple has apparently fixed rsync with extended attributes as of a March 2006 Security Update), however I am thinking also of putting some of my data on a disk volume with UFS that mounts to the machine running Mac OS X and rsnapshot.

Are there any rsnapshot users who have built from source rsnapshot 1.2.9 on Mac OS X systems with GNU coreutils also installed on such a system and if so how should a person interpret the regression test's assertion of "
GNU cp not found"?

Much thanks and best regards,

Sergio


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