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

Peter Dyballa via GNU coreutils Bug Reports <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>

> Am 20.Mai.2025 um 19:10 schrieb Paul Eggert <[email protected]>:
> 
> First, please build and run coreutils 9.7 and try that instead. If it works, we're done. (For what it's worth, I just now built and ran coreutils 9.7 on macOS 12.6 (ARM) and it worked fine.)

They built! Tests do not succeed completely (details on demand):

> 
> If the bug still occurs on your old platform with coreutils 9.7, please reproduce the problem yourself, with something like this:
> 
>   touch k out
>   mv k out
> 
> Once you've narrowed it down to something you can reproduce reliably, please run 'mv' under a debugger to see why mv is incorrectly saying "Not a directory".

tiger pete 226 /\  /opt/local/var/macports/build/_Volumes_BSD-Linux_macports-ports_sysutils_coreutils-devel/coreutils-devel/work/coreutils-9.7/src/touch k out
tiger pete 227 /\  !!:s:touch:mv:
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_Volumes_BSD-Linux_macports-ports_sysutils_coreutils-devel/coreutils-devel/work/coreutils-9.7/src/mv k out
mv: cannot stat 'out/k': Not a directory
Exit 1

No trace here, only a ktrace (enable kernel process tracing), shall run "GNU gdb 6.3.50-20050815 (Apple version gdb-696) (Sat Oct 20 18:20:28 GMT 2007)" tomorrow.

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  Pete

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