GRUB-1.97~beta3 configure problems on freebsd

[Brian R. Jones]

It appears that grub-mkconfig_lib has an explicit dependence on GNU 
coreutils.  This is ok, but it requires the GNU versions of 'stat' and 
'readlink' come before the native BSD versions in the path.  I would argue 
that this is a bad thing.

I could not find a ./configure option that would allow we to set a specific 
path for GNU coreutils so that grub-mkconfig_lib could explicitly use the 
GNU versions rather than the native ones.  All I can say is that it would be 
a nice addition.

Of course the problem can be worked around, but I generally think it's a bad 
idea to put foreign tools ahead of native ones in the path.  To much chance 
of breaking native scripts.

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--Brian