>
> hmmm, weird.
>
>> The Cygwin coreutils work fine and have the same version. So there is
>> a solution. Unfortunatly the Cygwin patch for coreutils has a few
>> thousend lines without doc. Next thing I could try, is to blindly
>> apply it.
>
> see if it applies indeed, if not then they do something else first.

Great! It works. Additionally the compilation of coreutils brought a
big boost of performance. It feels more like native Linux now.

One conflict I got with

# interix has no method to determine mounted filesystems
epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-8.5-interix-warn-mount.patch

Commented it out for now.

Quick and dirty what is required for the ebuild:

epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-8.5-cygwin.patch
einfo "Running autoreconf:"
autoreconf
mkdir -p man/install.td/
cp /usr/bin/install.exe.manifest man/install.td/install.exe.manifest
mkdir src
cp /usr/bin/install.exe.manifest src/ginstall.exe.manifest
cp /usr/bin/install.exe.manifest
/home/prefix/gentoo/usr/bin/install.exe.manifest


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