[Bug 791784] New: 'cp -u' is not supported on FreeBSD

[GStreamer (GNOME Bugzilla)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=791784

            Bug ID: 791784
           Summary: 'cp -u' is not supported on FreeBSD
    Classification: Platform
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: git master
                OS: FreeBSD
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: common
          Assignee: gstreamer-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: lantw44 at gmail.com
        QA Contact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
     GNOME version: ---

This problem was found when building gst-libav with gtk-doc enabled:

gmake[1]: Entering directory '/home/lantw44/gnome/build/gst-libav/docs/plugins'
  DOC   Scanning header files
cp: illegal option -- u
usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-alpsvx] source_file target_file
       cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-alpsvx] source_file ...
target_directory
cp: illegal option -- u
usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-alpsvx] source_file target_file
       cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-alpsvx] source_file ...
target_directory
cp: illegal option -- u
usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-alpsvx] source_file target_file
       cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-alpsvx] source_file ...
target_directory
cp: illegal option -- u
usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-alpsvx] source_file target_file
       cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-alpsvx] source_file ...
target_directory
cp: illegal option -- u
usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-alpsvx] source_file target_file
       cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-alpsvx] source_file ...
target_directory
cp: illegal option -- u
usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-alpsvx] source_file target_file
       cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-alpsvx] source_file ...
target_directory
  DOC   Building XML
  DOC   Building HTML
warning: failed to load external entity "xml/tree_index.sgml"
gst-libav-plugins-docs.sgml:38: element include: XInclude error : could not
load xml/tree_index.sgml, and no fallback was found
gmake[1]: *** [Makefile:897: html-build.stamp] Error 6

Since 'cp -u' cannot be found in POSIX
(http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/cp.html), can we
simply remove -u from gtk-doc-plugins.mak?

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