Michael Felt wrote:
> "lib/get-permissions.c", line 258.5: 1506-045 (S) Undeclared identifier ret.
> "lib/get-permissions.c", line 260.20: 1506-280 (W) Function argument
> assignment between types "char*" and "const char*" is not allowed.
> make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.

That's a bug recently introduced into gnulib, and it's the sort of fun one gets 
on the bleeding edge.  I installed the attached patch and will cc: this to 
bug-gnulib.  Now please try:

http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~eggert/coreutils-8.23.211-b1d1a.tar.xz