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Why would you need coreutils on Solaris? I've never on a UNIX made within the last 25 years needed coreutils or GNU tar or findutils, or GNU awk/sed for a build dependency.

If you don't delve much into the GNU world, you prolly don't need to. However, newer (i.e. post 2010) GNU source packages seem to depend on coreutil features that are missing from base OS programs. Also - I do like the syntactic sugar that coreutils provide - like cp with -v, tar that auto-uncompresses, more permissive find, egrep/recursive grep, etc. Sure - I can make do without them - but why?

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I probably have this all mixed up because it was a long time ago but yeah, I can see this sort of thing happening. Also, using gmake is a pretty standard requirement for gnu stuff, but he didn't list that.

GMake is included/listed in the screenshot  

> v11 is more than good enough, why would anyone want a newer version of slow larry ? :-) Actually, 10 was better but there's a few really useful bits in 11, so I also reluctantly went there. Running on the microserver on a ten year old install, and swerving ancient files to the macbook lappy at this very moment :-) btw, has anyone else noticed that almost no one anywhere mentions the effing operating system level one is required to have, for executables ? I am so sick of downloading program after program after program in a descending scale, just to get to one that actually works on this level of (shitty, substandard) OS X. It's enough to make you hate people. wtf is wrong with them ? Is that so hard to put in the release notes or on the download page ? "Requires 11.75 or higher", that's impossibly technical and difficult for these buffoons ? They don't consider that anyone could be running hardware more than a year old ?

For OSX - have you tried homebrew?