Cc'ing gnulib, because I doubt that Coreutils is the only package that requires this sort of change. This build-from-source dependency (a few months old, actually) comes solely from the use of gnulib's linebreak module, which requires the iconv_open module, which uses Gperf.
2007-06-13 Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * README-hacking: List Gperf as a build-requirement, too. Reported by Steve Ward. diff --git a/README-hacking b/README-hacking index 4ad917a..6c02512 100644 --- a/README-hacking +++ b/README-hacking @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ tools we depend upon, including: - Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/> - Bison <http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/> - Gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/> +- Gperf <http://www.gnu.org/software/gperf/> - Gzip <http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/> - Perl <http://www.cpan.org/> - Tar <http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/>