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

On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 02:06:05PM -1000, Sergio Trejo wrote:

> 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 ...
> 
> >checking for cp... /bin/cp

That's what you would expect.  You installed *gcp*, not *cp*.

You can force it to pick up your gcp like so:

$ ./configure --with-cp=/opt/local/bin/gcp

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