Re: 13.0-rc1 coreutils patch fails

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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?

It's probably OK to skip the patch if you are not in a locale that uses multibyte 
characters.  However,

My log says:

patching file bootstrap.conf
patching file configure.ac
patching file lib/linebuffer.h
patching file lib/mbfile.c
patching file lib/mbfile.h
patching file m4/mbfile.m4
patching file src/cut.c
patching file src/expand.c
patching file src/expand-common.c
patching file src/expand-common.h
patching file src/local.mk
patching file src/pr.c
patching file src/sort.c
patching file src/unexpand.c
patching file tests/Coreutils.pm
patching file tests/expand/expand.pl
patching file tests/expand/mb.sh
patching file tests/i18n/sort.sh
patching file tests/local.mk
patching file tests/misc/sort-mb-tests.sh
patching file tests/pr/pr-tests.pl
patching file tests/sort/sort-merge.pl
patching file tests/sort/sort.pl
patching file tests/unexpand/mb.sh
patching file tests/unexpand/unexpand.pl

Check the files:
Download: https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/coreutils/coreutils-9.10.tar.xz
MD5 sum: b0482ebec42fd48e95cb9187d566b9e4

Download: 
https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/development/coreutils-9.10-i18n-1.patch
MD5 sum: 6e9aea31b1662176101e6438a39fdad4

   -- Bruce



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