I've been having the same problems.
I was unable to bootstrap my machine until I masked >=coreutils-7.0.
Aaron
On Apr 6, 2009, at 5:23 PM, Steven Parkes wrote:
Yea, there have been conflicting reports of coreutils status. For
example, http://bugs.gentoo.org/264007 - but other people can't
reproduce it.
Hmmm not sure why people can't reproduce, unless it's a new bug in
Darwin, because it's definitely a bug in Darwin. I added the details
to the ticket.
I don't know the approach to patching such things. Does prefix
maintain patches for OS bug workarounds? I know there are patches.
Including this kind of thing?
There are a few possible ways to work around the bug. I put the
details in the ticket. Happy to contribute the code ...
