GNU bug report logs - #78509
Coreutils' mv and cp 9.5 do not work properly on old PPC Mac OS X 10.4.11, Tiger

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Web.DE>

Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 16:13:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

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Message #23 received at 78509 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Web.DE>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
Cc: 78509 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#78509: Coreutils' mv and cp 9.5 do not work properly on old
 PPC Mac OS X 10.4.11, Tiger
Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 23:02:17 +0200

> Am 21.Mai.2025 um 22:46 schrieb Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>:
> 
> I've pushed this change

Some more changes might be useful: A few tests use the programme getent that neither exists in old Mac OS X nor in modern macOS… (same for diffutils, I think, I do remember a test which was logging that the user performing the tests is not unique/does not have a unique UID)

--
Greetings

  Pete

The box said "Use Windows 95 or better," so I got a Macintosh.
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