[R-SIG-Mac] obsolete LaTeX software in "R CMD check" on Mac?

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

Ah, yes,

	brew install coreutils

:-)-O

Existing accounts using bash remain under bash when upgrading to 
Catalina. And bash remains available so all bash script will continue 
to run :-)-O

el

On 13/05/2020 15:44, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I will stand to be corrected, but from what I can tell, 'realpath' is
> not part of a default macOS installation, and would need to be
> installed from a third party repo (e.g. homebrew).
> 
> There appear to be shell script incantations that would accomplish the
> same functionality, but in the end, in the absence of these
> approaches, there is not an easy way, under a standard macOS install,
> to trace through the layers of symlinks to the target file.
> 
> You can also do this manually via the Finder, by right clicking on the
> symlink and using Show Original to navigate as well.
> 
> Also, note that under Catalina, the default shell changed from bash to
> zsh.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Marc