generalinstructions: Remove a false statement about "cp -R destroys symlink"

It's just wrong (at least with all recent Coreutils releases).

Note that hard links are really destroyed, but AFAIK tar does not keep
hard links correctly anyway and destroying hard links won't cause
packages fail to build at all.
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Xi Ruoyao 2024-04-06 17:38:09 +08:00
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<para>Do not use any method except the <command>tar</command> command <para>Do not use any method except the <command>tar</command> command
to extract the source code. Notably, using the <command>cp -R</command> to extract the source code. Notably, using the <command>cp -R</command>
command to copy the command to copy the
source code tree somewhere else can destroy links and source code tree somewhere else can destroy
timestamps in the source tree, and cause the build to fail.</para> timestamps in the source tree, and cause the build to fail.</para>
</listitem> </listitem>
<listitem> <listitem>