Comment by collinfunk

> The GNU versions work fine in macOS. Apple doesn’t want to distribute them, but that’s mean you can’t use them.

We also test GNU coreutils on macOS. It is a bit tricky since the other maintainers and I don't own any macOS machines for testing. But we seem to do well enough with a shared system that Adélie Linux kindly allows the compile farm [1] to use, along with some additional CI machines.

[1] https://portal.cfarm.net/