seems there is no "-a" parameter to "cp" in non-gnu "cp". Use "-p" instead.

diff --git a/src/scripts/Configure-os.h b/src/scripts/Configure-os.h
index afe4bf8ece888f2173818787b177c1b49b768aff..f3d8d51936f6bd27741453487e614c685a551144 100755 (executable)
--- a/src/scripts/Configure-os.h
+++ b/src/scripts/Configure-os.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #! /bin/sh
-# $Cambridge: exim/src/scripts/Configure-os.h,v 1.2 2008/01/17 13:03:35 tom Exp $
+# $Cambridge: exim/src/scripts/Configure-os.h,v 1.3 2008/04/13 09:22:45 tom Exp $
 
 # Shell script to create a link to the appropriate OS-specific header file.
 
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ rm -f os.h
 
 # In order to accomodate for the fudge below, copy the file instead of
 # symlinking it. Otherwise we pollute the clean copy with the fudge.
-cp -a ../OS/os.h-$os os.h || exit 1
+cp -p ../OS/os.h-$os os.h || exit 1
 
 # Special-purpose fudge for older versions of Linux (pre 2.1.15) that
 # use the structure name "options" instead of "ip_options".