I read the tutorial which advises me to run at util-linux package
./configure
I get
configuring util-linux-2.12q
You don't have <scsi/scsi.h>
You don't have <linux/blkpg.h>
You don't have <linux/kd.h>
You have <locale.h>You have <langinfo.h>
You have <sys/user.h>
You have <uuid/uuid.h>
You have <rpcsvc/nfs_prot.h>
You don't have <asm/types.h>
You don't have <linux/raw.h>
You have <stdint.h>
You don't have <sys/io.h>
You have inet_aton()
You have fsync()
You have getdomainname()
You have nanosleep()
You don't have personality()
You don't have updwtmp()
You have fseeko()
You have lchown()
You don't have rpmatch()
You have <term.h>
You have ncurses. Using <ncurses.h>.
You have termcap
You don't need -lcrypt
Strange... Static compilation fails here.
You don't have native language support
You have __progname
You don't have <pty.h> and openpty()
You have wide character support
You don't have SYS_pivot_root
You have a tm_gmtoff field in struct tm
Your rpcgen output does not compile - using pregenerated code
You have zlib
You don't have blkid
It then advises me to run the following command at misc-utils
make rename
I get the following warning
cc -pipe -O2 -mtune=i386 -fomit-frame-pointer -I../lib -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -DNCH=1 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DSBINDIR=\"/sbin\" -DUSRSBINDIR=\"/usr/sbin\" -DLOGDIR=\"/var/log\" -DVARPATH=\"/var\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -O2 -s rename.c -o rename
ld warning: option -s is obsolete and being ignored
How can you install rename -command for Mac?
That’s a warning, not an error.
I’ve just tried this myself and it has built a rename executable.