Coreutils will not install with default names

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Fri Jun 24 09:30:08 PDT 2011


On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:19, Nathan Farrar <nathan.farrar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I'm attempting to set up a new macports environment this AM and coreutils
> will not install with default names.  I'm using the following command, which
> as worked for me in the past:
>
> sudo port install coreutils +with_default_names
>
>
> ... coreutils installed without failure, but with 'g' prefixed to the front
> of all the binaries.  Any idea how I can resolve this?

Get used to it, or build your own symlink tree with your preferred
names.  +with_default_names was removed because it caused too many
problems.

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/20748

(and https://trac.macports.org/query?status=closed&order=priority&port=~coreutils&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=owner&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone
for some of the problems that it caused)

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