Re: 13.0-rc1 coreutils patch fails

"\"Douglas R. Reno\"" ([email protected] via lfs-support Mailing List) <[email protected]> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 17:54:18 -0600
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On 2/22/26 5:25 PM, "stephan" ([email protected] via lfs-support 
Mailing List) wrote:
> First of all, apologies if this should be in another list - I saw Bruce put
> the notification of rc1 release here, so I figured it was appropriate.
>
> The book warns of bugs in the coreutils patch: Many bugs have been found in
> this patch. When reporting new bugs to the Coreutils maintainers, please check
> first to see if those bugs are reproducible without this patch.
>
> I have an error during build during patch installation:
>
> can't find file to patch at input line 4128.
> diff -Naur -i coreutils-9.10/tests/unexpand/unexpand.pl
> coreutils-9.10.patched/tests/unexpand/unexpand.pl.
>
> If I skip patch installation, the build proceeds without issue. This sort of
> thing is a little above my paygrade in terms of understanding. Where should I
> be looking to see if this is a known issue? Has anyone else tried the build
> and had this error?
>
> -Steph

Good evening,

I can't reproduce this on my end. Can you check the md5sum for 
coreutils-9.10.tar.xz on your system? On mine, I get: 
b0482ebec42fd48e95cb9187d566b9e4

- Doug


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