On 3/5/24 10:06 AM, Bruno Haible wrote: > Reuben Thomas wrote: >> macOS users are typically not developing the software but helping me port >> it to macOS, hence building from git > > I see. > >> On >> macOS, as you are aware, out-of-date coreutils are installed on the system. >> The most common way to get up-to-date coreutils, I understand, is to >> install them from brew, with a prefix. > > When people install the coreutils through Homebrew, which prefix do the > programs have by default? Is it "g", or is it none? On FreeBSD (and other BSDs probably but I am less familiar), lots of programs are built with the "g" prefix. I know that this is the case for GNU grep, coreutils, and diffutils for sure.
I remember running into an issue running the bootstrap script a month or two ago since it checked for the buggy BSD join command. I ended up just aliasing a packaged GNU version or symlinking it; I forget which one. I found the related thread here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2024-01/msg00028.html Collin
