From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Thu Jul 11 21:25:49 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C925115DE305 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2019 21:25:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mueller6722@twc.com) Received: from dnvrco-cmomta02.email.rr.com (dnvrco-outbound-snat.email.rr.com [107.14.73.232]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "Client", Issuer "CA" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A6B4E6BAC9 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2019 21:25:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mueller6722@twc.com) Received: from localhost ([96.28.161.151]) by cmsmtp with ESMTP id lgZOhMSAwiYm2lgZQhzXHB; Thu, 11 Jul 2019 21:25:41 +0000 Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 21:24:52 +0000 From: "Thomas Mueller" To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: coreutils missing one component: (g)stat References: <20190711134723.GE34918@home.opsec.eu> X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfF3EV+mlUnV3cOSQLE3YGsiitsGM/pY0nIZNiqCnAdddstb/pK2DAQS0K47RxYsUHMLaKTLD2zSYCXR9vuEMih9aT/fZnh8iWMwHV0zxpEnTZ60nmGi6 XTW1Z23VF0bbj/3o8M+PVk3eBF2tgxI3TVVqdm7DC4g+BetzvLJP+eNQ X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: A6B4E6BAC9 X-Spamd-Bar: -- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of mueller6722@twc.com designates 107.14.73.232 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=mueller6722@twc.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.01 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-0.996,0]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:107.14.73.0/24]; FREEMAIL_FROM(0.00)[twc.com]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[twc.com]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.99)[-0.989,0]; MISSING_MID(2.50)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[cached: dnvrco-cmedge02.email.rr.com]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.51)[-0.506,0]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[232.73.14.107.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.5.0]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[151.161.28.96.zen.spamhaus.org : 127.0.0.10]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; FREEMAIL_ENVFROM(0.00)[twc.com]; ASN(0.00)[asn:7843, ipnet:107.14.73.0/24, country:US]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; IP_SCORE(-1.71)[ip: (-3.18), ipnet: 107.14.73.0/24(-2.96), asn: 7843(-2.37), country: US(-0.06)]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 21:25:50 -0000 from Kurt Jaeger and my previous post: > > I noticed, trying to configure ptxdist under FreeBSD (ptxdist.org), that stat (gstat) was missing in sysutils/coreutils. > > Configure script execution ended with > > checking for GNU rm... /usr/local/bin/grm > > checking for GNU rmdir... /usr/local/bin/grmdir > > checking for GNU sort... /usr/local/bin/gsort > > checking for GNU stat... configure: error: could not find GNU stat > Because FreeBSD has its own gstat command (doing something different), > the port has gnustat for GNU stat. So the configure script > needs to check for gnustat, maybe this solves your problem? Now I see where GNU stat is, and it's not FreeBSD's fault that ptxdist configure script can't find things. I made a symbolic link in nonroot ~/fb64/bin: ln -s /usr/local/bin/gnustat gstat That worked so far, but then ptxdist configure script failed on not finding GNU tar (in archivers as gtar, not sysutils/coreutils). I didn't know I needed that! Anyway, thanks for pointing out where GNU stat is. Tom