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Install seq, a sequence generator
Authored by: Ranger Rick on Dec 10, '03 11:54:22AM

Definitely, don't install the full set or you will have problems.

The default coreutils has a "uname" that will mess up pretty much anything that uses autoconf to build (part of the host identifier shows up as "unknown"). Also, 5.0 uses some APIs that are buggy on darwin, and a number of the included tools will have strange issues with large directories.

If you are going to install all of coreutils, don't install uname, and use the newer beta release of coreutils from alpha.gnu.org instead of the one linked from this tip.



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