bug#61386: [PATCH] cp,mv,install: Disable sparse copy on macOS

2023-03-21 Thread George Valkov
> On 2023-03-21, at 8:21 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > > On 21/03/2023 18:08, George Valkov wrote: >>> On 2023-03-21, at 7:32 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: >>> >>> On 3/21/23 08:27, George Valkov wrote: However since the old m4-1.4.19 in under tools/m4, coreutils builds with the legacy versi

bug#61386: [PATCH] cp,mv,install: Disable sparse copy on macOS

2023-03-21 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 21/03/2023 18:08, George Valkov wrote: On 2023-03-21, at 7:32 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: On 3/21/23 08:27, George Valkov wrote: However since the old m4-1.4.19 in under tools/m4, coreutils builds with the legacy version: If you're building from that tarball, coreutils doesn't need m4. I ju

bug#61386: [PATCH] cp,mv,install: Disable sparse copy on macOS

2023-03-21 Thread George Valkov
> On 2023-03-21, at 7:32 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > > On 3/21/23 08:27, George Valkov wrote: >> However since the old m4-1.4.19 in under tools/m4, coreutils builds with the >> legacy version: > > If you're building from that tarball, coreutils doesn't need m4. I just now > double-checked that,

bug#61386: [PATCH] cp,mv,install: Disable sparse copy on macOS

2023-03-21 Thread Paul Eggert
On 3/21/23 08:27, George Valkov wrote: However since the old m4-1.4.19 in under tools/m4, coreutils builds with the legacy version: If you're building from that tarball, coreutils doesn't need m4. I just now double-checked that, in an environment that didn't have m4. "./configure && make che

bug#61386: [PATCH] cp,mv,install: Disable sparse copy on macOS

2023-03-21 Thread George Valkov
> On 2023-03-21, at 4:49 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > Easiest might be to build from the latest release: > https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-9.2.tar.xz > If you do that, you shouldn't need to run m4, and all the gnulib files will > be there already. Thanks, Paul! Yes, this is what

bug#61386: [PATCH] cp,mv,install: Disable sparse copy on macOS

2023-03-21 Thread Paul Eggert
On 3/21/23 06:55, George Valkov wrote: Is there a source download link or should be clone from the Savanna git repo? Easiest might be to build from the latest release: https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-9.2.tar.xz If you do that, you shouldn't need to run m4, and all the gnulib f

bug#61386: [PATCH] cp,mv,install: Disable sparse copy on macOS

2023-03-21 Thread George Valkov
> On 2023-03-11, at 4:28 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > > On 11/03/2023 07:29, George Valkov wrote: >> Hi Paul! >> Here are the latest test results on macOS 12.6.3: >> threshold.sh: skipped test: block size of a directory is smaller than 4 bytes >> SKIP: tests/du/threshold.sh >> It was also skipped