Newer coreutils would support getattrat(3c)

[nshalman]

Among other things this should allow stat(1) to report file birth times.

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=ea916c70a5fc47ee6036a05416bc7462fd8dc1cd

Low priority, but might be nice to have.

[nshalman]

Noting so that others don't have to hit it first, this appears to be a bit of a morass:

• Download the 8.25 .tar.xz, uncompress it, recompress with gzip
• Make the FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 change so that build systems that build as root can run configure
• Tweak which targets get built so that it doesn't try to build certain binaries that fail to compile

Makefile changes:

diff --git a/coreutils/Makefile b/coreutils/Makefile
index 5d97613..279995a 100644
--- a/coreutils/Makefile
+++ b/coreutils/Makefile
@@ -21,9 +21,13 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2012, Joyent, Inc.  All rights reserved.
 #

-VER =  coreutils-8.13
+VER =  coreutils-8.25

 include ../Makefile.defs
+
+AUTOCONF_ENV += FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1
+ALL_TGT = src/stat src/seq src/readlink man/readlink.1 man/seq.1 man/stat.1
+
 include ../Makefile.targ

 all: all_autoconf

Still doesn't work because in a full build something is wrong that isn't wrong when building just those binaries invoking Make manually. :(