AIX's cp command does not support -af which is the default, so use -RPf which achives something sim…

pylib/gyp/generator/make.py

 # Copyright (c) 2013 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
 # Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 # found in the LICENSE file.
 
 # Notes:
 #
 # This is all roughly based on the Makefile system used by the Linux
 # kernel, but is a non-recursive make -- we put the entire dependency
 # graph in front of make and let it figure it out.
 #
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 cmd_cc = $(CC.$(TOOLSET)) $(GYP_CFLAGS) $(DEPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS.$(TOOLSET)) -c -o $@ $<
 
 quiet_cmd_cxx = CXX($(TOOLSET)) $@
 cmd_cxx = $(CXX.$(TOOLSET)) $(GYP_CXXFLAGS) $(DEPFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS.$(TOOLSET)) -c -o $@ $<
 %(extra_commands)s
 quiet_cmd_touch = TOUCH $@
 cmd_touch = touch $@
 
 quiet_cmd_copy = COPY $@
 # send stderr to /dev/null to ignore messages when linking directories.
-cmd_copy = ln -f "$<" "$@" 2>/dev/null || (rm -rf "$@" && cp -af "$<" "$@")
+cmd_copy = ln -f "$<" "$@" 2>/dev/null || (rm -rf "$@" && cp %(copy_archive_args)s "$<" "$@")
 
 %(link_commands)s
 """
 
 r"""
 # Define an escape_quotes function to escape single quotes.
 # This allows us to handle quotes properly as long as we always use
 # use single quotes and escape_quotes.
 escape_quotes = $(subst ','\'',$(1))
 # This comment is here just to include a ' to unconfuse syntax highlighting.
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   makefile_name = 'Makefile' + options.suffix
   makefile_path = os.path.join(options.toplevel_dir, makefile_name)
   if options.generator_output:
     global srcdir_prefix
     makefile_path = os.path.join(
         options.toplevel_dir, options.generator_output, makefile_name)
     srcdir = gyp.common.RelativePath(srcdir, options.generator_output)
     srcdir_prefix = '$(srcdir)/'
 
   flock_command= 'flock'
+  copy_archive_arguments = '-af'
   header_params = {
       'default_target': default_target,
       'builddir': builddir_name,
       'default_configuration': default_configuration,
       'flock': flock_command,
       'flock_index': 1,
       'link_commands': LINK_COMMANDS_LINUX,
       'extra_commands': '',
       'srcdir': srcdir,
+      'copy_archive_args': copy_archive_arguments,
     }
   if flavor == 'mac':
     flock_command = './gyp-mac-tool flock'
     header_params.update({
         'flock': flock_command,
         'flock_index': 2,
         'link_commands': LINK_COMMANDS_MAC,
         'extra_commands': SHARED_HEADER_MAC_COMMANDS,
     })
   elif flavor == 'android':
     header_params.update({
         'link_commands': LINK_COMMANDS_ANDROID,
     })
   elif flavor == 'solaris':
     header_params.update({
         'flock': './gyp-flock-tool flock',
         'flock_index': 2,
     })
   elif flavor == 'freebsd':
     # Note: OpenBSD has sysutils/flock. lockf seems to be FreeBSD specific.
     header_params.update({
         'flock': 'lockf',
     })
   elif flavor == 'aix':
+    copy_archive_arguments = '-pPRf'
     header_params.update({
+        'copy_archive_args': copy_archive_arguments,
         'link_commands': LINK_COMMANDS_AIX,
         'flock': './gyp-flock-tool flock',
         'flock_index': 2,
     })
 
   header_params.update({
     'CC.target':   GetEnvironFallback(('CC_target', 'CC'), '$(CC)'),
     'AR.target':   GetEnvironFallback(('AR_target', 'AR'), '$(AR)'),
     'CXX.target':  GetEnvironFallback(('CXX_target', 'CXX'), '$(CXX)'),
     'LINK.target': GetEnvironFallback(('LINK_target', 'LINK'), '$(LINK)'),
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     root_makefile.write("endif\n")
   root_makefile.write('\n')
 
   if (not generator_flags.get('standalone')
       and generator_flags.get('auto_regeneration', True)):
     WriteAutoRegenerationRule(params, root_makefile, makefile_name, build_files)
 
   root_makefile.write(SHARED_FOOTER)
 
   root_makefile.close()