On 2024-11-09 09:16, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>     $ src/ls -lZ INSTALL
>>     lrwxrwxrwx 1 padraig padraig ? ...
> 
> This is still an issue here.

Oh, thanks for reminding me. That's a Gnulib bug, fixed here:

https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-gnulib/2024-11/msg00075.html

with the fix propagated into Coreutils by installing the attached.

I thinks this closes out all the problems mentioned in this bug report, 
so I'm boldly closing it. We can reopen it if I'm wrong.