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

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 10:32:09 -0700

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 check" succeeded. So the m4 version should be 
irrelevant.