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

[George Valkov]

> On 2023-03-21, at 4:49 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> 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 we do, if you look at tools/coreutils/Makefile (link below), 
I changed PKG_VERSION and PKG_HASH.

make tools/coreutils/{clean,compile} V=sc
downloads the file you mentioned from one of the @GNU mirrors, the SHA2 hash 
matches 6885ff47b9cdb211de47d368c17853f406daaf98b148aaecdf10de29cc04b0b3, so it 
proceeds with the build.
https://github.com/httpstorm/openwrt/tree/coreutils-9.2/tools/coreutils
https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/12233/files

However since the old m4-1.4.19 in under tools/m4, coreutils builds with the 
legacy version:
https://github.com/httpstorm/openwrt/tree/coreutils-9.2/tools/m4

I tried removing tools/m4, and I get the following error
https://httpstorm.com/share/.openwrt/test/2023-02-06_coreutils-9.1/2023-03-21-openwrt-build-coreutils-9.2.txt

make tools/coreutils/{clean,compile} V=sc
…
config.status: creating po/POTFILES
config.status: creating po/Makefile
touch /Volumes/wrt3200/openwrt/build_dir/host/coreutils-9.2/.configured
CFLAGS="-O2 -I/Volumes/wrt3200/openwrt/staging_dir/host/include " 
CPPFLAGS="-I/Volumes/wrt3200/openwrt/staging_dir/host/include " CXXFLAGS="" 
LDFLAGS="-L/Volumes/wrt3200/openwrt/staging_dir/host/lib " make  -C 
/Volumes/wrt3200/openwrt/build_dir/host/coreutils-9.2 PROGRAMS="src/date 
src/readlink src/touch src/ln src/chown src/ginstall" LIBRARIES= MANS= 
SUBDIRS=. 
make[3]: Entering directory 
'/Volumes/wrt3200/openwrt/build_dir/host/coreutils-9.2'
CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /usr/bin/env bash 
'/Volumes/wrt3200/openwrt/build_dir/host/coreutils-9.2/build-aux/missing' 
aclocal-1.16 -I m4
autom4te: error: need GNU m4 1.4 or later: 
/Volumes/wrt3200/openwrt/staging_dir/host/bin/m4
aclocal.real: error: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
make[3]: *** [Makefile:8458: aclocal.m4] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory 
'/Volumes/wrt3200/openwrt/build_dir/host/coreutils-9.2'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:45: 
/Volumes/wrt3200/openwrt/build_dir/host/coreutils-9.2/.built] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/Volumes/wrt3200/openwrt/tools/coreutils'
time: tools/coreutils/compile#58.69#31.58#154.08
    ERROR: tools/coreutils failed to build.
make[1]: *** [tools/Makefile:219: tools/coreutils/compile] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/Volumes/wrt3200/openwrt'
make: *** [/Volumes/wrt3200/openwrt/include/toplevel.mk:231: 
tools/coreutils/compile] Error 2

Any ideas?


Georgi Valkov
httpstorm.com
nano RTOS