Subject: bug#78562: bug#78509: Coreutils' mv and cp 9.5 do not work properly on old PPC Mac OS X 10.4.11, Tiger

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 21:16:16 +0100

On 28/05/2025 20:58, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 2025-05-24 12:57, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>> The output is: "O_DIRECTORY incorrectly succeeded!"
> 
> Thanks for checking. I installed fixes to Autoconf, Gnulib and Coreutils
> to try to address the two bug reports <https://bugs.gnu.org/78562> and
> <https://bugs.gnu.org/78562>.
> 
> The fixes are so complicated that patching is not likely to be easy, so
> I generated a complete coreutils distribution tarball with the changes.
> Please try this tarball. You can get it temporarily from:
> 
> https://web.cs.ucla.edu/~eggert/coreutils-9.7.39-c8d75.tar.gz
> 
> ... or you can generate the tarball yourself from Savannah git master
> coreutils.

Really nice work on this.
It's great this is all now encapsulated in gnulib,
and code can now assume contemporary systems in this regard.

thanks!
Pádraig