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| -rw-r--r-- | Library/Formula/coreutils.rb | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Library/Formula/coreutils.rb b/Library/Formula/coreutils.rb index cdc0dc54d..8bc840b21 100644 --- a/Library/Formula/coreutils.rb +++ b/Library/Formula/coreutils.rb @@ -64,7 +64,12 @@ The man pages are still referenced with the g-prefix. <<-EOS Installing coreutils using the default names will cause the utilities to shadow system-provided BSD tools if /usr/local/bin is ahead of /usr/bin in -the path. This may cause problems in shell scripts. +the path. + +This can cause problems in shell scripts. + +Some software in Homebrew expects the system-provided tools to be first in +the path, and builds may fail if the coreutils verions are used instead. EOS end end |