Racket fails to build if coreutils are not in /bin #3707
Description
What version of Racket are you using?
8.0.0.10 [cs] (git)
What program did you run?
When building Racket (with just make) on a system without cp in /bin (or a number of coreutils), the build fails.
What should have happened?
Racket probably should have compiled.
If you got an error message, please include it here.
make[9]: Entering directory '/home/hazel/tmp/racket/racket/src/build/cs/c'
cd ChezScheme && "../../../../cs/c/../../ChezScheme"/configure --pb --machine=ta6le --disable-x11 --disable-curses --disable-auto-flags CC="clang" CFLAGS="-g -O2 -DELF_FIND_BOOT_SECTION -pthread" LDFLAGS="-pthread" LIBS="-ldl -lm -lrt" AR="ar" ARFLAGS="rc" RANLIB=":" WINDRES="windres"
Configuring for pb
../../../../cs/c/../../ChezScheme/workarea: line 281: /bin/cp: No such file or directory
../../../../cs/c/../../ChezScheme/workarea: line 287: /bin/cp: No such file or directory
make[9]: Leaving directory '/home/hazel/tmp/racket/racket/src/build/cs/c'
cd ChezScheme && make reset
make[9]: Entering directory '/home/hazel/tmp/racket/racket/src/build/cs/c/ChezScheme'
(cd pb && make reset)
(cd s && make reset)
make[11]: *** No rule to make target 'reset'. Stop.
make[10]: *** [Makefile:50: reset] Error 2
Please include any other relevant details
NixOS solves this issue by patching various files to update the hardcoded paths: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/interpreters/racket/default.nix#L74
BC had a similar issue, but only with uname: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-20.09/pkgs/development/interpreters/racket/default.nix#L73