Yes, it appears that BSD and coreutils differ in their behavior here; clearly we need to improve our testing coverage of the wrapper scripts.
I have fixed this issue in !8789. Needless to say, we will need to put out a 9.4.2 quite soon. In the meantime, BSD users can patch the binary distribution with,
--- Makefile.old 2022-08-07 18:26:32.288968006 -0400
+++ Makefile 2022-08-07 18:26:44.505988585 -0400
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
define installscript
echo "installscript $1 -> $2"
@if [ -L 'wrappers/$1' ]; then \
- $(CP) -P 'wrappers/$1' '$2' ; \
+ $(CP) -RP 'wrappers/$1' '$2' ; \
else \
rm -f '$2' && \
$(CREATE_SCRIPT) '$2' && \