On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Eric Noulard <eric.noul...@gmail.com>wrote:
2009/9/25 Kelly (KT) Thompson <k...@transpireinc.com>: > > Hi, > > > > I am having intermittent trouble executing > > > > $ cmake -E copy_directory /full/path/to/large/directory /new/path > > > > Originally, the copy_directory was failing deep in my build system > > (add_custom_command), but the failure is repeatable from the command line > > (exactly as shown above). The failure message is always the same: > > > > $ Error copying directory from "/full/path/to/large/directory" to > > "/new/path". > > > > Does anyone have any thoughts on how to determine the actual cause of the > > failure. > > May be you can try to strace the execution in order to see where it fails? > Great idea. (Now why didn't I think of that?!?) Strace found the problem. There was an invalid symbolic link buried deep in my directory structure that was failing with ENOENT (No such file or directory). I guess cp blindly copies the symlink w/o checking for the existence of the target. Thanks!
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