On Sat, Nov 1, 2025, at 11:14, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 01/11/2025 12:45, Andrew Marshall wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 1, 2025, at 07:47, Pádraig Brady wrote: >>> On 01/11/2025 09:24, Bruno Haible via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote: >>>> Pádraig Brady wrote: >>>>> In fact only 6 commands require the localename-unsafe dependency: date, >>>>> du >>>>> through show-date() (fprintftime), and >>>>> ls, pr, stat, uptime through strftime(). >>>>> So I'll adjust things to only link those against CoreFoundation. >>>> >>>> This will have no effect in most cases. >>>> >>>> The CoreFoundation dependency is needed for two purposes: >>>> - Gnulib modules such as localename, nstrftime, fprintftime, >>>> - $(LIBINTL) when built without --disable-nls. >>>> Here, it ensures that the user's settings in control panels >>>> are respected by programs that, as usual, do >>>> setlocale (LC_ALL, ""); >>>> >>>> Since normally, on macOS, GNU packages are built with NLS enabled, >>>> the 'env' program will still be linked against CoreFoundation. >>> >>> Good point, >>> but restricting the explicit link would help Andrew's case I think, >>> since he said it was fine with v9.7. >>> >>> Andrew are you using homebrew or doing your own build >>> with --disable-nls? >>> >>> thanks, >>> Padraig >> >> Hi, I am primarily building via Nixpkgs (whose derivation I also adapted to >> be able to build from the src tree in my attempts to bisect). The Nixpkgs >> derivation does have `--disable-nls` [1]. However, I can also reproduce the >> same issue (bad in v9.8, good in v9.7) using Homebrew’s coreutils (via the >> prebuilt bottles). >> >> [1]: >> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/9947f42e8867f8c6a8573334256fb4eb1fe6f9e0/pkgs/tools/misc/coreutils/default.nix#L171 > > OK thanks for the info. > > I've just pushed Grisha's more focused link adjustment, > which should address this for the --disable-nls case at least. > We can improve from that later if possible. > > Marking this as done. > > thanks, > Padraig
Thanks for the fix! Note that when built with `--enable-single-binary` the incorrect behavior is still present (as, of course, everything is linked in the single binary). Not sure if there is anything that could be done about that, but perhaps it’s worth documenting or making it an invalid config on Darwin. I can confirm that without single-binary, the issue is resolved on current master (fdf8815).
