Until now cross-compilation would fail with:
i586-pc-gnu-ld: src/copy.o: undefined reference to symbol 'file_chauthor'
i586-pc-gnu-ld: /gnu/store/…-glibc-cross-i586-pc-gnu-2.29/lib/libhurduser.so.0.3: error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
* gnu/packages/base.scm (coreutils)[arguments]: When 'hurd-target?', add
#:configure-flags.
(outputs '("out" "debug"))
(arguments
`(#:parallel-build? #f ; help2man may be called too early
+
+ ;; 'cp' and others refer to 'file_chauthor' so they must link directly
+ ;; against libhurduser.
+ ,@(if (hurd-target?)
+ '(#:configure-flags '("LIBS=-lhurduser"))
+ '())
+
#:phases (modify-phases %standard-phases
(add-before 'build 'patch-shell-references
(lambda _